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First    Steps   in    Child    Training 

By    PROFESSOR    M.    V.    O'SHEA 

The    Trend   of   the    Teens 

By    PROFESSOR    M.    V.    O'SHEA 

The  Faults  of  Childhood  and  Youth 

By    PROFESSOR    M.    V.    O'SHEA 

Everyday  Problems  in  Child  Training 

By    PROFESSOR    M.    V.    O'SHEA 

Putting  Young  America  in  Tune 

How    to    Teach    the    Child    Appreciation 
of  Music 

By    HENRIETTE    WEBER 

The   Home   Guide   to   Good   Reading 

With    Notes 

By     PROFESSOR     DAVID     HARRISON 
STEVENS 

The    Proper    Feeding    of    Infants 

By  W.   H.   GALLAND,  M.   D. 

Diseases    of    Infancy    and    Childhood 

By  W.   H.   GALLAND.   M.   D. 

Maternity  and  Infant  Care 

^ives    of    Mothers     and     Ch 
How    We    Can    Save    Them 

By  W.   H.   GALLAND,  M.  D. 


The     Lives    of    Mothers     and     Children, 
How    We    Can    Save    Them 


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The  University  of  Chicago 


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PREFACE 

Acknowledgment  is  made  herewith  of  assist- 
ance obtained  from  articles  and  books  on  the 
subject  of  good  reading.  Helpful  ideas  were 
gained  from  a  booklet  prepared  by  members  of 
the  English  department  at  the  University  of  Wis- 
consin and  from  publications  issued  by  the  city 
librarians  of  Newark,  Buffalo,  Milwaukee,  Cleve- 
land and  Chicago.  Mr.  John  Cotton  Dana,  Miss 
Linda  A.  Eastman,  and  Mr.  Walter  L.  Brown 
gave  generously  of  their  extensive  information. 
They  and  Mr.  George  B.  Utley  of  the  American 
Library  Association  were  able  to  advise  me  on 
points  unfamiliar  to  persons  of  any  other  pro- 
fession. Those  who  find  profitable  direction  in 
reading  from  the  following  pages  will  be  sure  to 
supplement  this  guide  with  the  opinions  of  the 
most  indefatigable  critics  of  books,  the  trained 
librarians  serving  every  community  of  America. 

THE  AUTHOR. 


TABLE    OF    CONTENTS 

GROUP                                                                              PAGE 
AN  INTRODUCTION  TO  READING 13 

I     BOOKS  FOR  LITTLE  FOLKS 35 

Picture  Books — Stories  and  Poems — Miscella- 
neous. 

II     SUPPLEMENTARY  READING  FOR  THE  UPPER  GRADES  55 
Biography — Fiction — Poems    and    Plays — His- 
tory, Adventure  and  Travel — Outdoor  Books — 
Practical   Handbooks. 

III  SUPPLEMENTARY    READING    FOR    HIGH    SCHOOL 

DAYS    87 

Biography — Fiction — Drama — Travel — Miscel- 
laneous Guides  to  Self-Improvement — Practi- 
cal Handbooks.  * 

IV  THE  KIND  OF  READING  FOR  A  LIBERAL  EDUCA- 

TION     113 

Biography — Fiction — Drama— Essays  and  Let- 
ters— Travel — Miscellaneous. 

V     BOOKS  FOR  LEISURE  HOURS  IN  COLLEGE  OR  OUT  .  139 
Biography — Fiction — Drama — Essays  and  Let- 
ters— Miscellaneous. 

VI     SPECIAL  LISTS  FOR  MATURE  READERS 163 

The  Bible— Political  and  Social  Life  of  the 
United  States — Political  and  Social  Life  of 
Other  Countries — Professions  and  Vocations — 
The  World  War— Further  Reading  in  Fiction 
— Further  Reading  in  Drama — Collections. 

INDEX  OF  TITLES 209 

INDEX  OF  AUTHORS.  .  .  .229 


AN  INTRODUCTION  TO  READING 

In  America  today  the  question  is  not,  What 
books  shall  I  read!  but,  Shall  I  read  books  at  all! 
This  is  true  in  spite  of  free  libraries  in  every  town 
and  renting  collections  in  corner  stores  of  the 
cities.  As  a  nation,  America  reads  the  daily 
newspaper,  counting  that  its  "literature"  as  well 
as  its  kaleidoscope  of  passing  events.  Next  in 
order  of  popularity  stands  the  moving  picture, 
and  after  that  perhaps  the  story  weekly  or 
monthly  magazine.  Books  are  actually  on  the 
defensive  among  us.  As  national  means  to  cul- 
ture or  amusement  they  are  becoming  the  prop- 
erty of  the  child  still  in  school  and  of  adults 
1  inving  had  some  higher  education. 

This  is  true  in  the  broad  sense.  To  be  sure, 
"best  sellers"  have  wide  reading,  and  in  actual 
number  the  new  books  of  a  year  bulk  large  on 
library  catalogues ;  but  when  judged  by  the  mass 
of  our  hundred  million  readers,  the  copies  actu- 
ally in  circulation  are  very  few.  People  generally 
prefer  the  stories  and  sketches  of  popular  maga- 
zines with  their  striking  pictures  and  thick-sown 
advertisements  in  color.  They  return  io  child- 
is 


GJUfiDE  TO  GOOD  READING 

hood's  method  of  learning  through  pictures 
because  it  is  easier,  or  they  concentrate  far  scant 
half  hours  on  the  swift,  impressionistic  artistry 
of  the  short-story. 

Thus  as  a  nation  we  are  in  danger  of  thinking 
that  the  simplest  is  necessarily  the  best,  forget- 
ting that  quick  impressions  cannot  in  literature 
be  so  enduring  as  those  of  longer  sort.  Neither 
is  there  any  substitute  for  the  printed  book.  With 
its  fluttering  sketches  of  great  novels  the  moving 
picture  has  not  taken  the  place  of  prose  fiction. 
Character  analysis  cannot  be  depicted  in  flashes 
of  light.  The  novelist  whose  work  has  been 
filmed,  holds  his  secrets  still  locked  within  the 
two  or  three  hundred  pages  of  carefully  wrought 
characterization  and  setting.  Great  men  and 
women  of  fiction  are  like  those  of  reality — to  be 
understood  only  after  a  long  acquaintance. 
Therefore  fiction  and  biography  will  always  be 
our  best  aids  to  clear  understanding  of  human 
nature  in  all  its  moods  and  in  every  environment. 
Furthermore,  the  moving  picture  cannot  give  the 
mastery  of  language  or  the  subtle  joy  of  dis- 
covering charm  in  words.  At  best  it  is  mechan- 
ical, artificial,  and  tempting  only  because  so 
simple. 

The  charge  against  short-stories  is  more  dif- 
ficult, perhaps,  and  yet  quite  as  sure.  A  good 
story  of  three  thousand  words  may  make  a  real 
impression  upon  a  reader — one  much  like  the 


AN  INTRODUCTION  TO  READING  15 

quick,  heavy  pressure  of  a  friend's  handclasp. 
It  may  be  as  true  to  nature  as  the  sudden,  eager 
grasp  showing  the  exact  shade  of  pleasure  our 
presence  brings  to  a  friend,  but  usually  it  is 
limited  in  effect  by  reason  of  its  very  brevity. 
Only  the  greatest  masters  can  make  three  thou- 
sand words  express  subtle  changes  in  human 
nature.  None  can  express  within  such  limits  the 
inter-relations  of  men  and  women  in  groups  or 
the  details  of  environment  that  affect  human 
nature  profoundly.  Short-stories  are  like  the 
flashed  scenes  of  moving  pictures ;  novels  may  be 
ample  views  of  life  at  any  point  in  world  history. 
It  would  seem,  therefore,  that  novels,  next  to 
poetry,  contain  our  finest  expressions  of  human 
feeling  in  literary  form.  Surely  many  longer 
pieces  of  prose  fiction  deserve  the  enthusiasm  of 
the  critic  who  held  that  more  could  be  learned 
of  life  by  reading  Anna  Karenina  than  by  living. 
Equal  claim,  however,  may  be  made  for  the  best 
volumes  of  history,  biography,  and  closely  rea- 
soned fact.  Novels  represent  roughly  the  value  of 
all  books  as  books  by  comparison  with  shorter 
prose  pieces,  whatever  their  substance.  Their  very 
size  demands  a  higher  craftsmanship  in  letters,  a 
soul  ample  enough  to  fill  page  after  page  without 
dullness  or  repetition.  At  their  best  they  measure 
up  to  Milton's  definition  as  "the  precious  life- 
blood  of  a  master  spirit,  embalmed  and  treasured 
up  on  purpose  to  a  life  beyond  life."  They  "are 


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not  absolutely  dead  things,  but  do  contain  a 
potency  of  life  in  them  to  be  as  active  as  that 
soul  was  whose  progeny  they  are." 

The  matter  really  needs  no  argument,  but  only 
to  be  considered.  All  will  agree  that  truly  great 
books  are  as  valuable  to  civilized  society  as  truly 
great  men.  We  may  go  a  step  further  and  admit 
that  books  are  more  valuable  to  mankind,  for 
their  lives  are  unending  and  inspiring  to  the 
humblest  seeker  after  truth. 

At  this  point  the  fact  confronts  us  that  choice 
must  still  be  made  among  the  rows  and  rows  of 
volumes  on  library  and  bookstore  shelves.  Mod- 
ern presses  work  too  fast  for  human  eyes  to  fol- 
low them,  even  though  all  the  best  of  older  litera- 
ture be  ignored.  Time  was  when  books  were  few 
and  uniformly  better  than  today;  at  least  it  was 
easier  for  critics  to  pass  on  the  output  year  by 
year  and  so  save  the  best.  A  hundred  years  ago 
it  was  not  strange  for  Lamb  to  recommend  the 
literary  training  of  Bridget  Elia  as  described 
in  the  following  passage:  "She  was  tumbled 
early,  by  accident  or  design,  into  a  spacious 
closet  of  good  old  English  reading,  without  much 
selection  or  prohibition,  and  browsed  at  will  upon 
that  fair  and  wholesome  pasturage.  Had  I 
twenty  girls,  they  should  be  brought  up  exactly  in~ 
that  fashion."  His  is  a  happy  picture  of  good 
reading  in  abundance  and  all  of  it  good. 

But  if  it  ever  existed,  that  day  is  gone.    Advice 


AN  INTRODUCTION  TO  READING  17 

can  be  taken  best  from  more  recent  students  of 
letters,  men  who  saw  the  onrush  of  books  threat- 
ening to  overwhelm  readers  untrained  in  selec- 
tion. Buskin's  counsel  is,  "A  common  book  will 
often  give  you  much  amusement,  but  it  is  only  a 
noble  book  which  will  give  you  dear  friends. 
Bemember  also  that  it  is  of  less  importance  to 
you  in  your  earlier  years  that  the  books  you  read 
should  be  clever  than  that  they  should  be  right. 
I  do  not  mean  oppressively  or  repulsively  instruc- 
tive, but  that  the  thoughts  they  express  should 
be  just  and  the  feelings  they  excite  generous. " 
The  rule  of  good  practice  in  reading  could  not  be 
stated  more  simply.  The  same  note  lies  in 
Schopenhauer's  saying,  "You  can  never  read  bad 
literature  too  little,  nor  good  literature  too 
much,"  though  it  lacks  the  guiding  counsel  of 
Buskin's  fine  words. 

It  is  in  Sesame  and  Lilies  that  this  master  of 
nineteenth  century  prose  most  pointedly  faces 
us  with  the  serious  issue.  His  words  are:  "Have 
you  measured  and  mapped  out  this  short  life  and 
its  possibilities?  Do  you  know,  if  you  read  this, 
that  you  cannot  read  that — that  what  you  lose 
today  you  cannot  gain  tomorrow?  Will  you  go 
and  gossip  with  your  housemaid  or  your  stable- 
boy  when  you  may  talk  with  queens  and  kings — 
or  flatter  yourself  that  it  is  with  any  worthy 
consciousness  of  your  own  claims  to  respect  that 
you  jostle  with  the  hungry  and  common  crowd 


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for  entree  here,  and  audience  there,  when  all  the 
while  this  eternal  court  is  open  to  you  with  its 
society  wide  as  the  world,  multitudinous  as  its 
days — the  chosen,  the  mighty,  of  every  place  and 
time?" 

Suppose  that  under  such  counsel  all  have 
resolved  to  read  only  the  best.  How  shall  we  dis- 
cover what  books  are  really  worth  our  time? 
Emerson's  sweeping  command  is,  "Never  read 
any  book  that  is  not  a  year  old."  This  is  as 
much  as  to  say,  Let  public  opinion  and  paid 
reviewers  settle  the  claims  of  new  books;  then 
we  may  find  the  best  winnowed  from  the  chaff  of 
the  year.  Such  a  process  has  been  going  on, 
year  after  year,  for  generations,  until  now  we 
can  choose  without  waiting  for  fresh  judgment 
on  the  newest  works.  We  may  immediately  take 
down  from  the  library  shelf  one  of  the  i  l  classics ' ' 
— books  approved  through  many  years,  not  one 
only,  by  discriminating  readers. 

With  human  dislike  for  advice,  we  may  feel 
resentful  when  told  that  a  particular  book  should 
be  read  "because  it  is  a  classic."  This  recalls 
too  vividly  for  pleasure  the  days  of  school  spent 
in  analyzing  Burke 's  Speech  on  Conciliation  with 
America,  Julius  Caesar,  or  Silas  Marner. 
Classics  they  all  are,  unquestionably,  but  the 
mode  of  acquaintanceship  was  too  rude  and  com- 
pulsory for  us  to  recall  them  or  the  word  itself 
with  pure  pleasure.  Or  perhaps  we  share  the 


AN  INTRODUCTION  TO  READING  19 

feeling  described  by  Frederic  Harrison  in  the 
remark,  "We  grow  weary  of  what  everyone  is 
supposed  to  have  read." 

Putting  aside  these  instinctive  distastes  to 
guidance,  let  us  give  attention  to  the  books 
themselves.  Remember  the  human  heart  behind 
the  printed  pages  of  every  great  book.  Realize 
that  there,  exposed  to  view,  is  the  inmost  feeling 
of  an  interesting,  thoughtful  individual.  He  may 
tell  humorous,  sad,  idealistic,  or  romantic  stories ; 
his  own  soul  is  in  the  lines.  He  may  take  us  trav- 
eling to  great  distances ;  he  only  shows  his  private 
joy  in  strange  places  and  peoples.  He  may  relate 
plain  facts  of  history  for  us;  he  is  only  telling 
the  world  that  he  finds  this  act  base,  that  one 
noble,  and  still  another  glorious. 

Fear  of  classics  fades  as  soon  as  we  realize 
their  origin  to  be  in  personalities.  Do  we  demand 
of  our  friends  that  they  admire  in  one  another 
exactly  what  we  ourselves  choose  as  fine? 
Assuredly  not.  Has  not  every  one  of  us  two 
friends  who  he  hopes  devoutly  may  never  meet? 
Each  has  some  special  merit  in  our  eyes,  as  we 
presumably  have  in  theirs;  yet  still  other  traits, 
we  know,  would  make  the  two  instant  enemies. 
It  may  be  a  difference  of  business,  politics,  or 
religion.  No  matter;  we  see  the  difficulty  ahead 
and  avoid  it.  Now,  taste  in  reading  depends  on 
precisely  such  issues.  We  must  therefore  have 
the  courage  to  say  honestly,  "I  don't  like  this 


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book.  I  may  later  in  life,  when  I  have  read  more, 
but  not  now.  Classic  or  no  classic,  I  shall  not 
finish  it." 

This  is  not  scientific  procedure,  to  be  sure, 
toward  winning  at  once  a  full  appreciation  of 
literature.  It  is  something  more  important  to 
us  for  the  moment,  namely  a  step  toward  finding 
among  the  world's  best  books  our  own  kind. 
Prom  that  point,  once  found,  we  may  pass  grad- 
ually by  proper  stages  to  varieties  of  pleasur- 
able reading  not  originally  our  possession. 

This  honesty  with  ourselves  will  instantly  break 
down  all  distrust  of  our  own  taste.  In  literature, 
as  in  music,  we  are  apt  to  agree  dishonestly  that 
a  'particular  thing  is  fine  rather  than  be  thought 
uncultured.  Arthur  James  Balfour  expresses 
the  fact  thus:  "The  first  step  has  hardly  been 
taken  in  the  direction  of  making  literature  a 
pleasure  until  interest  in  the  subject,  and  not 
a  desire  to  spare  (so  to  speak)  the  author's  feel- 
ings, or  to  accomplish  an  appointed  task,  is  the 
prevailing  motive  of  the  reader. "  Begin  where 
you  are.  not  where  you  feel  you  should  be.  That 
is  the  only  way  to  make  progress. 

This  advice  presupposes  ability  to  find  the  true 
classics,  of  our  literature.  It  is  a  simple  matter 
if  we  determine  to  do  it.  The  right  method  is  to 
use  a  guide  of  some  sort.  The  book  in  your  hand 
at  this  moment  is  such  a  work,  so  devised  as  to 
hint  at  the  matter  within  every  volume  mentioned. 


AN  INTRODUCTION  TO  READING  21 

All  are  not  "  classics "  in  the  narrowest  sense  of 
that  term,  but  all  have  literary  or  fact  value 
above  the  common.  No  one  could  conceivably  like 
all  that  are  named,  nor  could  he  find  time  to 
read  all.  Even  were  both  these  notions  possible, 
at  the  end  of  his  labors  the  reader  would  by  no 
means  have  covered  the  whole  range  of  fine  litera- 
ture. No  critic  can  select  only  the  best,  nor  is  it 
possible  to  enclose  within  the  covers  of  a  single 
book  clear  comments  on  all  that  deserves  atten- 
tion. 

The  end  desired  has  been  gained  if  this  guide 
leads  its  readers  to  instruction  and  pleasure 
within  the  realm  of  literature.  Good  books,  even 
the  classics,  offer  as  much  variety  of  companion- 
ship as  life  itself.  Having  found  his  true  friends, 
the  reader  will  soon  discover  that,  as  in  life,  he 
has  been  introduced  to  a  third  person,  congenial 
and  interesting  albeit  a  trifle  different  from  him- 
self or  that  first  friend  among  books.  There  we 
may  leave  him.  Once  entered  in  the  guild  of 
literary  comradeship  he  will  make  his  own  way. 
In  that  brotherhood  he  may,  in  Lowell's  words, 
"see  with  the  keenest  eyes,  hear  with  the  finest 
ears,  and  listen  to  the  sweetest  voices  of  all 

time." 

*          ******  * 

Children  love  books.  Of  that  there  can  be  no 
doubt  whatever.  Nor  is  their  love  of  the  vague, 
undiscriminating  sort.  Kate  Douglas 


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tells  of  looking  back  to  a  childhood  home  contain- 
ing a  stock  of  medical  and  theological  works,  and 
also  a  little  walnut  book-case  full  of  ' '  dear,  broken 
backs,  broken  in  my  service."  In  this  collection, 
as  a  little  girl  she  had  two  favorites,  one  a 
maroon-covered  David  Copperfield,  whose  pages 
were  limp  with  the  kisses  of  adoring  childhood. 
The  other,  Who  Killed  CocJc  Robin?  illustrated 
in  colors,  years  later  could  make  her  heart  beat 
faster  in  recollections  and  set  her  mind  a-dream- 
ing.  Such  love  of  books  is  the  priceless  heritage 
of  childhood,  when  every  word  and  picture  make 
their  profound  impressions.  Because  of  it  even 
the  smallest  children  should  be  provided  with 
only  the  best  stories  and  pictures. 

Having  the  chance  to  choose  for  themselves, 
young  children  will  unerringly  begin  with  tales 
of  fairies,  elves,  and  all  the  other  strange  beings 
of  imagination.  A  boy  of  five  feels  own  brother 
to  any  creature  acting  grotesquely  in  this  strang- 
est of  all  places,  the  w^orld.  He  lives  in  a  dream- 
land to  which  books  merely  lend  reality  by  telling 
in  black  and  white — or  better,  in  colors — that  all 
he  imagines  is  really  true.  How  unhappy  he  may 
be  made  by  compulsory  doses  of  fact,  and  how 
barren  will  be  his  early  years  if  reality  blots  out 
all  his  fairy  pictures  of  purest  fancy ! 

Fortunately  for  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin,  she  was 
a  child  in  days  when  books  were  less  plentiful. 
This  compelled  the  family  to  own  its  6wn  library. 


AN  INTRODUCTION  TO  READING  23 

wherefore  the  books  were  selected  carefully.  Buy- 
ing to  keep  meant  careful  choosing.  Today  this 
is  still  true,  but  free  libraries  have  ended  the 
need  of  buying  in  order  to  read.  It  no  longer  is 
necessary  to  keep  at  all.  Children  own  few  books 
aside  from  those  received  as  Christmas  or  birth- 
day gifts;  instead  they  draw  temporarily  from 
public  libraries.  Books  are  not  today  their  truly 
own,  to  be  kissed,  reread,  and  treasured,  for 
ownership  seems  to  parents  needless  and  as  for 
the  children  the  possibility  probably  never  occurs 
to  them.  This  loss  cannot  be  held  a  fault  of  the 
library  system — our  chief  hope  of  liberal  educa- 
tion beyond  the  school  room.  Free  libraries 
enable  children  to  meet  the  world  of  authors  face 
to  face,  and  by  careful  selection  our  librarians 
make  their  shelves  safe  hunting-grounds  for  the 
youth.  This  is  one  decided  advantage  of  our 
generation.  Jeremy  Bentham,  one  of  England's 
greatest  thinkers,  credited  his  mental  grasp  to 
a  childhood  of  unrestrained  browsing  among 
books.  At  the  age  of  five  he  was  found  on  a  high 
stool  in  his  father's  library,  a  lighted  candle  on 
either  side  and  a  very  heavy  volume  on  his  child- 
ish knees.  The  book  was  Rapin's  History  of 
England,  surely  serious  enough  for  a  boy  of 
five  summers.  But  the  same  boy  at  six  had  read 
enough  hero  stories  to  play  at  war  in  his  grand- 
mother's granary,  where  he  valiantly  used  a 
seventeenth  century  sword  on  the  vandal  rats. 


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A  reading  of  the  Telemachus  story  at  about  that 
time  he  counted  the  starting  point  of  his  whole 
career.  By  roaming  from  book  to  book  he  gar- 
nered the  ideas  that  nourished  his  whole  life.  Yet 
with  Bentham,  as  with  the  boy  in  our  modern 
public  library,  the  principle  of  selection  was 
active,  for  his  father  had  chosen  discreetly  when 
loading  the  family  shelves.  So  too  do  librarians 
today.  Lucky  is  the  child  who  learns  to  use  their 
kindly  advice  as  well  as  their  books. 

With  small  children  the  dangers  of  unguided 
reading  are  of  peculiar  sort.  As  has  been  said 
above,  all  children  love  books  and  choose  natur- 
ally if  given  range.  The  danger  is  that  they  will 
limit  their  choice  too  soon,  before  imaginative 
reading  has  done  its  work.  Even  older  persons 
are  guilty  of  narrowing  a  child's  interests  too 
early.  During  the  holiday  season  of  1919  certain 
American  booksellers  complained  that  parents 
were  buying  their  children  not  fairy  tales,  but 
books  containing  facts — as  if  a  child  of  six  would 
gain  more  from  concrete  details  than  by  having 
his  imagination  enlivened  with  the  joys  of  world- 
wide wanderings.  Perhaps  such  parental  serious- 
ness arose  from  anxiety  over  the  world's  need  of 
educated  men  and  women  in  reconstruction  days ; 
at  any  rate,  it  would  defeat  its  own  ends  if  con- 
tinued, for  without  vision  there  can  be  no  great 
attainment  in  any  line  of  endeavor. 

So  long  as  a  child  revels  in  the  glowing  im- 


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possibilities  of  fairyland,  so  long  should  he  be 
left  to  his  own  ways.  Soon  enough  he  will  turn 
to  practical  tests  of  himself  and  all  other  con- 
crete matters  on  earth;  then  the  power  of  imag- 
inative survey  will  come  as  a  relief  from  routine 
and  as  an  aid  to  broad  judgment.  Coleridge  used 
to  say  that  he  felt  a  great  superiority  over  those 
who  had  not  read  fairy  tales  during  childhood, 
because  they  all  seemed  to  lack  his  sense  of  the 
unity  of  the  universe.  Romance  in  prose  or  verse 
is  for  youth  a  developing  power,  not  the  means 
to  idleness.  It  raises  the  child's  horizon  until  it 
is  limitless.  If  a  child  has  thus  freed  his  spirit, 
thereafter  work  can  never  be  for  him  mere 
drudgery.  May  we  never  turn  the  child  of  five  to 
eight  years  away  from  Perrault,  the  Grimms, 
Andersen,  or  their  modern  imitators  for  the  sake 
of  vain  reality.  His  own  nature  will  make  that 
transition  after  elfin  days  are  done. 

Though  those  years  of  fullest  fancy  are  to  pass 
unhampered,  the  books  then  put  into  a  child's 
way  should  attain  a  certain  standard  of  excel- 
lence. They  should  be  finely  illustrated  as  one 
requirement.  A  sense  of  proportion  in  figures, 
of  beautiful  coloring,  can  be  developed  at  the  age 
of  four  or  even  earlier.  Tawdry  grotesqueness 
in  children's  books  is  as  vulgar  as  anywhere  else. 
The  same  criticism  may  be  made  of  certain  stories 
"written  down"  to  the  child's  level,  as  though  lie 
demanded  smartness  of  his  animals  in  human 


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guise  or  only  modern  life  thinly  dressed  in  humor- 
ous wrappings.  Good  taste  in  picture  and  story, 
fine  press  work  and  good  binding  are  as  truly  the 
right  of  childhood  as  of  maturity  and  have  far 
more  aesthetic  importance  during  the  impression- 
able years. 

There  remains  another  necessary  aid  to  be 
given  young  readers.  What  the  child  finds  put 
into  his  own  hands  cannot  take  the  place  of  that 
coming  to  him  from  the  lips  of  others.  Beading 
aloud  to  children  still  too  young  to  read  for 
themselves,  is  a  natural  act  for  all  mothers  but 
one  soon  forgotten  when  no  longer  necessary. 
The  first  value  of  oral  reading  lies  in  hearing 
correct  pronunciation  of  new  words  and  thus 
learning  sound  and  sense  simultaneously.  Many 
grown  persons  fumble  a  word  picked  up  through 
reading  and  uttered  only  when  the  need  arose 
suddenly.  Still  more  unfortunate  is  the  child  who 
forgets  a  strange  word  completely  because  its 
meaning  is  vague  and  its  pronunciation  beyond 
conjecture,  the  dictionary  being  to  him  a  book 
'only  in  name. 

Oral  reading  teaches  correct  pronunciation, 
adds  new  words  and  phrases  to  the  child's 
vocabulary,  and  forms  a  living  contact  between 
writer  and  auditor.  Such  profit  is  gained  uncon- 
sciously, as  in  the  case  of  a  prominent  orator  now 
living.  He  was  reared  in  a  bookish  home.  There 
he  heard  good  literature  long  before  he  could 


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read,  for  while  his  hands  were  busied  with  blocks 
and  toys  his  ears  were  taking  in  the  stories  fall- 
ing from  his  mother 's  lips.  Volume  after  volume 
of  Dickens,  Thackeray,  and  certain  old  classics 
for  which  we  have  no  modern  substitutes  were 
poured  forth  year  after  year  as  the  boy  passed 
from  toys  to  tools,  and  from  tools  to  drawing. 
Today  he  possesses  a  vocabulary  of  marvelous 
richness  and  a  correct  pronunciation  of  all  the 
words  in  his  speech. 

Time  spent  in  reading  aloud  is  not  wasted,  nor 
is  it  a  small  advantage  to  know  through  such 
sharing  what  stories  are  filling  a  child's  leisure 
hours.  The  reader  selects,  or  at  least  approves, 
every  book  that  through  him  becomes  a  living 
experience  for  his  youthful  listener.  For  this 
reason  alone  parents  may  keep  up  the  practice 
of  reading  aloud  to  good  effect  through  many 
years. 

When  a  boy  or  girl  is  choosing  at  random  from 
adventure  stories,  the  same  care  in  selection  is 
impossible.  Oral  reading  cannot  keep  pace  with 
the  child's  full  demand.  Then  a  book  may  be 
brought  from  the  library  and  left  on  the  reading 
table,  but  not  always.  It  may  be  read  in  the 
family  circle  of  an  evening,  but  it  may  also  be 
devoured  aloft  in  barn  or  tree  during  summer 
vacation.  Such  liberty  may  bring  a  youth  to  dis- 
cover his  true  genius.  More  often,  however,  he 
is  led  on  from  book  to  book  in  a  series  by  the 


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same  author,  not  one  of  the  lot  having  high 
literary  merit  or  characters  true  to  life.  One 
such  book  in  three  months  would  be  harmless, 
whereas  ten  or  twelve  during  that  period  would 
be  disastrous.  Such  tangents  are  pitiful,  for  the 
child's  mind  is  filled  with  worthless  images,  his 
taste  is  undeveloped  or  ruined,  and  worse  still  the 
time  spent  is  lost  from  useful  reading. 

At  once  there  arises  need  of  scientific  guidance. 
From  his  tenth  to  his  fifteenth  year  the  average 
boy  or  girl  is  determining  his  taste  in  books.  A 
genuine  appreciation  of  the  best  cannot  be  won 
without  effort,  nor  will  the  child  discover  for 
himself  the  value  of  such  effort.  Mothers  may 
well  remember  that  there  will  be  no  sudden  turn 
away  from  poor  magazine  stories  and  badly  writ- 
ten novels  toward  the  best  things  in  prose  and 
poetry.  There  must  be  place  from  the  first  for 
truly  great  fiction,  for  biography,  for  the  varie- 
ties of  reading  matter  having  something  in  them 
beyond  the  transitory. 

As  far  as  possible,  too,  there  should  be  con- 
stant purchase  of  good  books  for  the  home 
library.  An  old  tale  relates  the  story  of  a  youth 
led  to  a  life  on  the  sea  by  the  picture  of  a  great 
four-masted  ship  that  hung  on  the  wall  of  his 
room.  Books  can  have  similar  influence.  If  kept 
in  view,  they  will  sooner  or  later  be  read.  Then 
they  become  parts  of  life  itself,  while  still  remain- 
ing on  the  family  shelves  to  remind  their  owner 


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of  aspirations  stirred  by  their  contents.  During 
the  passing  years  they  may  even  win  a  second  or 
third  reading.  Good  books  that  are  personal 
possessions  have  power  above  all  but  the  best  of 
friends.  Let  them  be  chosen  with  the  same  con- 
scious care  during  those  immature  years  when 
personal  taste  is  an  undeveloped  element  of 

youthful  character. 

*******  * 

As  in  any  plan,  a  person  setting  out  to  read 
for  profit  must  have  a  definite  aim.  Broadly 
speaking  it  will  be  a  desire  to  stir  his  own  spirit 
to  life  through  contact  with  the  best  that  has 
been  felt  and  thought  in  past  times.  The  reader 
may  have  a  definite  course  mapped  out  or  his 
chosen  author,  but  behind  any  individual  plan  lies 
this  larger  purpose. 

The  practicable  measures  for  profitable  reading 
may  be  neglected  all  too  easily.  It  is  not  enough 
to  pass  through  a  book  having  an  eye  only  for 
the  story  or  for  something  satisfying  mere  curi- 
osity. The  wise  way  is  to  determine  beforehand 
what  one  hopes  to  win  from  a  volume  as  a  per- 
manent possession;  then  there  will  be  no  vague- 
ness of  purpose.  More  definite  still  should  be 
the  tallying  up  of  results  after  the  book  has  been 
finished.  Then  one  can  get  the  full  satisfaction 
of  literary  possession  as  he  exercises  his  own 
taste,  rejecting  or  approving  according  to  his 
nature.  Such  estimates  may  be  wrong  as  criti- 


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cism  goes  generally,  but  at  any  rate  they  are 
honestly  one's  own.  No  treatment  of  a  reader's 
mind  is  worse  than  to  make  a  great  critic's  esti- 
mate of  a  book  the  basis  for  selecting  only  what 
meets  that  valuation.  The  critic  may  be  wrong; 
but  even  if  he  is  right,  strength  of  judgment  is 
lost  by  putting  the  matter  into  the  hands  of 
another.  On  this  ground  alone  literary  criticism 
has  no  place  in  the  following  pages.  It  is  a  fine 
and  important  part  of  great  literature,  but  one 
that  the  reader  will  come  upon  most  delightfully 
after  assembling  some  opinions  of  his  own. 

The  broad  laws  of  criticism  are  enough  at  the 
outset.  Any  book  of  high  rank  will  teach  some- 
thing worthy  regarding  God,  man,  or  physical 
nature.  That  material,  when  found,  should  be 
treasured.  In  all  but  works  of  fact  there  will 
appear  some  human  being  of  importance,  per- 
haps many.  This  importance  may  exist  in  power 
to  reveal  to  us  other  social  groups  than  our  own, 
or  better  still  to  show  the  hitherto  unguessed 
possibilities  of  our  minds  and  hearts.  Then,  there 
will  be  some  charm  of  style,  either  in  diction  or 
in  imagery,  that  will  improve  and  elevate  the 
reader  almost  insensibly.  These  are  the  simple 
outlines  of  what  may  be  asked  of  any  book  deserv- 
ing a  reading  from  cover  to  cover.  One  or  more 
marks  of  excellence  may  appear,  but  one  is  enough. 
If  for  you  at  least  there  seem  to  be  none  at  all, 
throw  the  book  aside.  They  may  appear  to  you 


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later  in  life.  If  there  are  many  excellences  in 
your  eyes,  treasure  that  volume  for  a  bedside 
shelf  or  one  near  a  favorite  chair,  whence  it  may 
be  pulled  down  again  and  again. 

Yet  some  will  protest  that  this  simple  outline 
is  not  sufficient  aid  when  attempting  the  great 
masterpieces  of  literature.  They  assert  that  the 
diction  is  obsolete,  the  philosophy  abstruse,  and 
so  on.  True  enough,  the  bare  text  of  Shakspere 
makes  difficult  reading  at  first;  there  must  be 
glossaries,  notes,  and  even  critical  helps  as  well 
if  one  is  to  grasp  the  fullest  measure  of  Shaks- 
pere 's  meaning.  With  another  author  it  will  be 
necessary  to  find  out  why  he  was  so  interested 
in  his  theme.  That  will  demand  some  study  of 
the  political  and  social  conditions  of  his  day. 
Such  a  book  is  Carlyle's  Past  and  Present,  and 
of  similar  kind  are  many  others. 

At  this  point  a  warning  is  necessary.  Do  not 
look  for  opinions ;  look  for  helps.  The  text  itself 
contains  all  the  truth  if  we  can  only  dig  it  out. 
A  book  that  quickly  proves  hard  reading  will 
drive  one  to  an  encyclopedia  in  order  to  find  the 
essential  facts  of  its  creation.  There,  or  in  any 
good  handbook  of  literature,  they  are  clearly 
stated,  and  with  the  general  hints  are  the  names 
of  editors  who  have  brought  out  critical  editions. 

Another  timely  warning  is  that  one  should  not 
be  disappointed  when  a  classic  fails  to  give  him 
great  or  immediate  pleasure.  It  may  be  neces- 


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sary  to  read  it  at  a  leisurely  pace,  having  time 
between  sessions  with  that  author  for  reflection 
and  assimilation.  Gibbon's  Decline  and  Fall 
and  Carlyle's  French  Revolution,  for  example, 
are  best  read  so.  It  is  likewise  possible  that  this 
disappointment  arises  from  demanding  strong 
emotional  effects  or  melodramatic  outbursts  of 
passion.  A  little  self-examination  will  reveal 
whether  the  fault  lies  in  the  book  or  in  one's  own 
nature,  so  that  the  remedy  need  not  be  far  to 
seek. 

For  relief  from  the  manner  of  one  author,  it 
is  wise  to  have  several  within  reach.  This  brings 
us  to  the  important  matter  of  owning  our  books. 
No  public  library  can  extend  its  privileges  so  as 
to  supply  every  reader  with  a  varied  collection, 
even  for  a  short  time.  Its  assistance  must  be 
transitory.  A  mature  reader  will  find  public 
libraries  useful  as  loan  sources  when  judging 
books  before  purchasing,  perhaps  for  nothing- 
further.  The  satisfaction  of  possessing  good' 
books  is  very  great.  Even  that  joy  in  the  physical 
beauty  of  books,  in  their  bindings  and  typogra- 
phy, or  in  their  rarity,  may  come  to  others  than 
the  bibliophile.  Certain  it  is,  no  man  becomes  a 
skilled  reader  until  he  has  enough  volumes  about 
him  to  gain  relief  through  variety  as  he  pauses 
for  thought  while  journeying  through  a  master- 
piece. 

The  expense  of  collecting  for  a  home  library  is 


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amazingly  small,  especially  if  the  reader  desires 
books  enough  to  give  up  some  other  pastime.  As 
Voltaire  said  of  free  libraries,  there  never  has 
been  an  expense  more  magnificent  or  more  useful. 
Today  it  is  possible  to  buy  reprints  of  English 
classics  at  a  low  price;  moreover,  several  " libra- 
ries "  of  popular  works,  all  sold  at  a  uniform  low 
rate,  are  putting  good  books  within  the  reach  of 
all.  Second-hand  bookstores  are  also  treasure 
houses  to  booklovers,  for  there  may  be  found 
expensive  editions  at  a  fraction  of  the  list  prices. 

In  order  to  choose  among  the  numerous  edi- 
tions of  an  older  book  that  has  been  printed 
several  times,  consult  the  United  States  Catalog 
of  Books  in  Print.1  Under  author  or  title  will 
appear  all  editions  in  print  and  the  cost  of  each. 
The  one  chosen  may  then  be  ordered  through  any 
bookseller  or  of  the  publisher.  This  valuable 
work  may  be  seen  in  any  library  and  at  most 
large  bookstores. 

Lacking  such  help,  a  buyer  will  do  well  to 
write  to  a  book  dealer  in  the  nearest  city,  asking 
that  an  edition  be  sent  costing  about  so  much, 
having  illustrations  for  children,  or  meeting  other 
stated  requirements.  Usually  the  right  edition 
can  be  found.  The  fact  that  the  United  States 
Catalog  gives  list  prices  of  new  copyrights  as 
well  as  of  old  books,  being  a  full  guide  to  books 

'See  the  annual  Cumulative  Book  Index  for  new  works. 


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on  sale,  makes  it  needless  to  give  prices  for  the 
titles  mentioned  in  the  present  work.  Even  new 
books  have  various  editions  nowadays  and  are 
constantly  changing  in  price. 

As  a  final  remark  on  the  limitations  of  any 
guide  to  good  reading,  the  compiler  of  this  classi- 
fied list  urges  its  users  to  remember  the  authors 
as  well  as  the  book  titles.  Writers  like  Scott, 
whose  names  call  to  mind  several  splendid  works, 
deserve  more  consideration  than  space  here  per- 
mits. As  soon  as  a  reader  finds  the  author  of  all 
authors  for  his  immediate  needs,  let  him  test  the 
works  not  mentioned  here.  He  will  so  be  carry- 
ing out  the  compiler's  intention,  which  is  to  point 
the  way  to  self  cultivation  in  literary  apprecia- 
tion, not  to  hinder  personal  taste. 


GROUP  I 
BOOKS  FOR  LITTLE  FOLKS 


GROUP  I 
BOOKS  FOR  LITTLE  FOLKS 

This  group  has  titles  for  children  under  ten 
years  of  age.  The  first  part  might  be  enlarged 
by  adding  names  of  short  stories  printed  sep- 
arately, but  to  buy  many  such  books  is  expensive 
and  impractical.  Children  are  better  pleased  with 
a  few  well-illustrated  collections,  to  be  read  year 
after  year  as  were  the  ' '  chatter-boxes ' '  of  past 
times.  The  picture  books  mentioned  are  all  of  this 
sort. 

Pictures  for  childhood  days  should  be  artistic 
and  finely  colored,  never  grotesque  or  vulgar. 
The  old  tales  should  therefore  be  bought  in  edi- 
tions illustrated  by  real  artists — by  such  persons 
as  Parrish,  Ford,  Crane,  Brooke,  LeMair,  Robin- 
son, Pyle,  Caldecott,  Pogany,  Kate  Greenaway, 
and  Jessie  Willcox  Smith.  The  name  of  the  artist 
is  to  be  considered  in  buying  children's  books,  and 
also  the  name  of  the  publisher.  Many  American 
and  British  houses  are  famous  for  their  juvenile 
publications ;  others  are  of  such  high  standing  that 
they  would  never  issue  a  cheap,  badly  illustrated 
volume.  Since  such  publishers  are  constantly 

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adding  to  their  reprints  of  fairy  tales,  fables,  and 
myths,  the  list  given  here  should  be  considered 
merely  representative  of  the  best. 

With  all  children  under  ten  there  is  chance  for 
story-telling.  The  youngest  will  demand  that 
stories  be  read  or  told,  and  for  either  method  there 
are  a  few  simple  rules.  The  story  should  require 
only  fifteen  or  twenty  minutes  for  telling  or  read- 
ing. If  told,  it  should  have  exact  quotations 
wherever  the  child  expects  them.  This  does  not 
mean  memorizing  the  entire  story,  but  that 
speeches  and  phrases  repeated  in  the  text  for 
emphasis  or  climax  be  kept  unchanged.  Animal 
stories  are  favorites  in  this  first  stage,  and  those 
of  dramatic  situation  and  action.  Humor,  sur- 
prise elements,  and  a  rhythmic  Structure  are 
desirable. 

At  the  age  of  eight  an  average  child  enjoys  long 
narratives  of  adventure  having  extravagant 
exaggerations,  supernatural  elements,  and  bold 
romance.  In  general,  variety  is  necessary,  though 
a  child  of  sensitive  nature  should  not  hear  tales 
that  are  grim  or  unduly  exciting.  Some  ethical 
significance,  or  moral,  is  desirable  as  an  ending; 
this  is  in  response  to  a  demand  of  child  nature 
and  is  not  to  be  confused  with  the  oppressive 
moralizing  of  some  current  fiction  for  children. 
To  avoid  the  opposite  evil,  remove  from  the  older 
fairy  tales  such  bad  suggestions  as  lie  in  accounts 
of  cruel  stepmothers,  cruel  punishment,  shrewd 


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trickery,  and  wickedness  due  to  stupidity.  Com- 
pilers who  understand  child  nature  have  freely 
adapted  the  old  stories  in  a  way  to  remove  such 
blemishes. 

From  the  first  much  time  should  be  given  to 
poetry.  Children  love  rhythmic  measures  and  are 
free  from  the  timidity  that  restrains  many  adults 
from  learning  to  enjoy  metrical  form.  As  is 
generally  known,  dancing  games,  songs,  and 
simple  verses  are  natural  to  a  child ;  for  this  rea- 
son memorizing  of  good  poetry  is  done  uncon- 
sciously if  the  child  hears  it  read  aloud.  The 
seven  Heart  of  Oak  Books  or  one  of  the  large 
single-volume  collections  named  in  this  group  will 
give  all  the  fine  poetry  needed  for  the  years 
between  kindergarten  time  and  preparatory  school 
days.  Fine  pictures,  imaginative  stories,  and 
oral  reading  are  all  important  during  the  first  ten 
years  of  a  child 's  life,  but  place  should  likewise  be 
made  for  poetry  while  rhythmic  motion  and 
rhymed  words  seem  natural  forms  of  self 
expression. 

Picture  Books 

Aesop's  Fables 

These  have  been  published  countless  times  and  so  are 
easy  to  obtain.  In  the  editions  of  Houghton  Mifflin. 
Button,  and  Doubleday  Page  will  be  found  excellent 
illustrations — the  last  named  being  the  most  expensive 
and  finest  of  the  three. 


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ANDERSEN,  HANS  CHRISTIAN 

Fairy  Tales  and  Wonder  Stories 

These  world  favorites  are  available  separately  or  in 
complete  form.  Well  illustrated  in  a  moderate-priced 
volume  by  Louis  Rhead;  more  expensive  and  finer  edi- 
tions have  drawings  by  Duloe,  Clarke,  Armfield,  Robin- 
son, and  Tegner. 

Arabian  Nights 

Selected  tales,  well  illustrated,  are  published  by  the 
following  houses  named  in  order  of  expense  of  their 
editions:  Houghton  Miffiin,  Longmans  Green,  Holt, 
and  Scribners.  The  last  named  has  the  glowing  illustra- 
tions of  Maxfield  Parrish. 

BAUM,  L.  FRANK 
The  Land  of  Oz 

The  first  of  a  famous  series.  Profusely  illustrated  in 
color,  highly  entertaining  for  the  youngest  children. 

BROOKE,  L.  LESLIE 

Johnny  Crow's  Garden 

Pictures  that  are  genuinely  amusing  and  wholesome, 
with  none  of  the  grotesqueness  or  cheap  fun  commonly 
found  in  newspaper  comics. 

BURGESS,  THORNTON  W. 

Old  Mother  West  Wind  Stories 

This  popular  writer  of  children's  stories  has  brought 
out  several  attractive  volumes  in  this  series  of  nature 
stories.  All  are  fanciful  explanations  of  how  certain 
things  in  the  world  came  to  be  so. 


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CALDECOTT,  RANDOLPH  (illustrator) 
Hey,  Diddle,  Diddle  Picture  Book 

Artistic  humorous  pictures  for  the  stories  "Hey, 
Diddle,  Diddle, "  "Baby  Bunting,"  "Where  Are  You 
Going,  My  Pretty  Maid?' '  "A  Frog  He  Would  A-Woo- 
ing  Go,"  and  "The  Fox  Jumps  Over  the  Parson's 
Gate."  Each  story  poem  is  also  sold  separately. 

COLLINS,  CHAKLES 

Baby's  Big  Book  of  Pictures 

The  pictures  are  as  interesting  and  cheerful  as  Mr. 
Collins*  title.  Animals,  natural  scenes,  men  working 
out-of-doors  are  the  varied  objects  presented  herein 
to  the  minds  of  the  smallest  children. 

CRANE,  WALTER  (illustrator) 

The  Baby's  Bouquet,  a  fresh  bunch  of  old 
rhymes  and  tunes. 

A  child  of  four  will  enjoy  these  musical  settings  for 
such  old  favorites  as  "London  Bridge,"  "Polly,  Put 
the  Kettle  On,"  etc.  Well  illustrated. 

DODGE,  MARY  MAPES  (editor) 

A  New  Baby  World:   Stories,  Rhymes,  and 
Pictures  for  Little  Folks. 

A  collection  of  stories  and  rhymes,  all  well  illus- 
trated, that  amuse  and  teach  as  well. 

GREENAWAY,  KATE  (illustrator) 
Marigold  Garden 
Under  the  Window 

Two  illustrated  books  that  equal  her  Mother  Goose  in 
attractiveness. 


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HABPEK,  WILHELMINA  (editor) 
Story-Hour  Favorites 

This  is  a  new  selection,  made  by  a  skilled  story- 
teller in  a  leading  American  library.  Highly  recom- 
mended for  both  amount  and  quality  of  its  contents. 

JOHNSON,  CLIFTON 

Golden  Hair  and  the  Three  Bears 

One  of  ten  folklore  stories  retold  and  attractively 
issued  as  "Bedtime  Wonder  Tales." 

JOHNSON,  MARGARET 
A  Bunch  of  Keys 

Ingenious  telling  of  stories  by  use  of  pictures  in 
place  of  much  ordinarily  given  in  text.  Recommended 
for  use  with  children  just  trying  to  read  for  them- 
selves. 


H.  WILLEBEEK  (illustrator) 
Our  Old  Nursery  Rhymes,  the  original  tunes 
harmonized  l>y  Alfred  Moffat 

Fine  coloring  and  delicate  figures  here  illustrate  the 
popular  stories  of  childhood.  This  collection  will  take 
the  place  of  several  others  that  total  higher  cost 
without  being  so  artistic. 

Little  Songs  of  Long  Ago 

The  same  artist  and  musician  present  a  highly 
attractive  collection  of  more  nursery  rhymes,  includ- 
ing "Old  King  Cole,"  "Little  Tom  Tucker,"  "Curly 
Locks,"  etc. 

John  Martin's  Big  Book  far  Little  Folk 

The  third  annual  volume  is  as  good  as  its  predeces- 


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sors.  The  color  printing,  stories,  and  poems  make 
this  yearly  book  as  much  prized  as  the  magazine  of 
the  same  name. 

PERRAULT,  CHARLES 
Mother  Goose 

Countless  reprints  of  the  English  translation  make 
Mother  Goose  stories  easy  to  obtain.  Kate  Green- 
away 's  illustrations  are  very  popular.  Others  to  be 
noted  in  order  of  increasing  cost  are  those  of  Jessie 
Willcox  Smith,  Hardy,  and  Rackham.  The  Volland 
series  of  artistic  books  has  a  Mother  Goose  of  distinction. 

POTTER,  BEATRIX 

The  Peter  Rabbit  Books 

A  series  of  animal  stories  printed  in  separate,  fully 
illustrated  books  that  please  the  smallest  children. 
Not  an  economical  form  of  story  book,  for  the  stories 
are  short,  but  so  written  that  a  young  child  can 
quickly  memorize  an  entire  tale. 

The  Tailor  of  Gloucester 

A  charming  little  tale  of  how  the  mice  played  tricks 
on  a  quaint  old  tailor  of  Gloucester  town. 

PYLE,  KATHERINE 

Mother's  Nursery  Tales 

Familiar  stories  rewritten  in  form  for  telling  to 
little  children  and  illustrated  with  excellent  taste. 

SCUDDER,  HORACE  E.  (compiler) 

The  Book  of  Fables  and  Folk  Stories 

A  large  and  inexpensive  collection  that  has  been 
edited  carefully.  Illustrated. 


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The  Children's  Book;  a  collection  of  the  best 
and  most  famous  stories  and  poems  in  the 
English  language 

A  "one-volume  library"  for  children  of  five  to  nine 
years  that  lives  up  to  the  promises  of  its  title. 

SKINNER,  E.  L.  AND  A.  M.  (compilers) 

Nursery  Tales  from  Many  Lands 

A  well-made  book,  inexpensive,  containing  many 
of  the  best  liked  nursery  tales.  Decorated  with  black 
and  white  drawings. 

SMITH,  GERTRUDE 

Arabella  and  Araminta  Stories 

A  beginner  in  reading  will  enjoy  these  amusing  little 
tales  and  will  find  his  task  made  easy  by  the  repeated 
phrases. 

STEVENSON,  ROBERT  Louis 

The  Child's  Garden  of  Verses 

Most  gracious  images  of  childhood  feeling. 

Any  edition  will  please  a  child,  but  the  finer  ones 
with  illustrations  by  Storer,  Robinson,  or  Jessie  Will- 
cox  Smith  have  special  attractiveness. 

WALTER,  L.  E.  (compiler) 

Some  Nursery  Rhymes  of  Belgium,  France, 
and  Russia 

This  new  book  is  unique  in  having  illustrations  by 
native  artists.  The  editor,  who  selected  the  pieces, 
rhymed  in  English  the  foreign  ideas  of  the  originals. 


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\VuiiiHT,  ISA  L. 

With  the  Little  Folks 

Twelve  lively,  simple  stories  easily  understood  by 
children  too  young  to  read. 

Stories  and  Poems 

ALDEN,  RAYMOND  M. 

Why  the  Chimes  Rang,  and  Other  Stories 
Eleven  fine  fairy  tales  by  a  living  American  writer. 

An  Anthology  of  Mother  Verse 

A  new  edition  of  the  best  mother  verse  in  English, 
attractively  decorated  and  prefaced  by  an  essay  of  Kate 
Douglas  Wiggin's. 

ASBJORNSEN,  P.  C. 

Fairy  Tales  from  the  Far  North 
Braekstad's  translation  has  made  available  in  Eng- 
lish such  popular  pieces  as  "The  Town  Mouse  and 
Country  Mouse,"  "Reynard  and  Chanticleer,"  "The 
Parson  and  the  Clerk,"  and  "The  Doll  in  the  Grass." 

BAILEY,  CAROLYN  S. 

Firelight  Stories 

The  sort  of  stories  that  a  mother  will  read  aloud  to 
children  night  after  night. 

BALDWIN,  JAMES  (compiler) 

Fifty  Famous  Stories  Retold 
All  are  historical   stories  that  appeal  to   children, 
such  as  King  Alfred  and  the  cakes,  Dick  Whit  tin  gt  on. 
and  his  cat,  and  Bruce  and  the  spider. 


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BELL,  F.  E.  0. 

The  Singing  Circle 

Young  children  can  use  this  collection  of  action 
songs  and  singing  games  without  much  outside  assist- 
ance. Well  illustrated. 

BROWN,  ABBIE  F. 

The  Lonesomest  Doll 

A  fairy  story  for  girls  who  believe  that  there  are 
queens  in  homespun  as  well  as  in  silk.  The  heroine  is 
daughter  of  the  porter  in  a  great  castle  whose  little 
queen  had  never  known  the  true  meaning  of  play  until 
her  friendship  with  the  little  maiden  from  below- 
stairs. 

BROWNE,  FRANCES 

The  Wonderful  Chair  and  the  Tales  It  Told 
Poetic  fairy  tales  of  unusual  beauty. 

BURNETT,  FRANCES  HODGSON 

The  Cozy  Lion,  as  Told  by  Queen  Crosspatch 
A  lion  who  lives  on  breakfast  foods  until  he  loses 
his  taste  for  blood  that  he  may  have  children  as  play- 
mates.    Highly  amusing. 

The  Good  Wolf 

The  story  of  a  wonderful  wolf  that  could  shake  from 
his  ears  all  sorts  of  wonderful  gifts  for  a  little  boy 
named  Barty. 

CARROLL,  LEWIS  (C.  L.  Dodgson) 

Alice's    Adventures     in     Wonderland     and 
Through  the  Looking-Glass 
This    famous   nonsense    story    and    its   less    famous 


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sequel  please  children  immensely;  their  elders  get 
quite  as  much  amusement  from  the  droll  rhymes  and 
the  pictures  by  Tenniel.  Issued  together  and  separ- 
ately in  many  editions. 

CBAIK,  DINAH  M. 

The  Little  Lame  Prince  and  His  Travelling 

Cloak;  a  Parable  for  Young  and  Old 
The  wondrous  travel  cloak  and  its  owner  belong  to 
the  children  of  every  generation. 

DEFOE,  DANIEL 

The  Adventures  of  Robinson  Crusoe  on  His 

Island 

This  is  the  first  travel  story  read  by  most  boys  and 
the  last  that  they  forget,  for  it  seems  as  real  as  when 
written — two  hundred  years  ago. 

DE  LA  MARE,  WALTER 

The  Three  Mulla-Mullgars 

This  story  by  a  noted  writer  of  children's  verse  has 
a  high  rank  among  juvenile  classics.  A  new  Amer- 
ican edition  is  well  illustrated  by  Dorothy  P.  Lathrop. 
The  poems  of  de  la  Mare  should  be  included  in  all 
reading  lists  for  younger  children;  like  Stevenson's, 
they  will  also  be  read  by  parents. 

FRIEDLANDER,  GERALD  (translator) 

Jewish  Fairy  Tales  and  Stories 
The  artist  and  translator  of  this  new  collection  are 
one  and  the  same  person. 

HARRIS,  JOEL  CHANDLER 

Uncle  Remus,  His  Songs  and  Sayings 
The  first  of  several  happy  volumes  of  negro  dialect 


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stories  about  Brer  Rabbit,  Brer  Fox,  and  the  other  ani- 
mals. The  stories  are  familiar  to  all  Southerners  and 
even  Uncle  Remus  himself  could  be  matched  on  many 
a  plantation. 

HOLBROOK,  FLORENCE  (compiler) 
Book  of  Nature  Myths 

These  stories  of  primitive  folk  tell  how  animals 
came  to  be  as  they  are.  Just  the  stories  for  children 
growing  out  of  the  " fairy  story"  age. 

KENNEDY,  H.  A.  (compiler) 

The  New  World  Fairy  Book 

American  children  particularly  enjoy  Indian  tales 
and  legends,  and  in  this  collection  are  versions  adapted 
to  readers  six  to  eight  years  old. 

KINGSLEY,  CHARLES 
The  Water  Babies 

A  recent  edition  of  this  old  favorite  has  several 
full-page  illustrations  by  Jessie  Willcox  Smith,  adding 
greatly  to  its  attractiveness. 

KIPLING,  BUDYARD 
The  Jungle  Book 

A  chil-d  will  read  of  Mowgli  and  the  wolves,  of  the 
Indian  jungle  folk,  and  then  will  learn  with  delight 
that  Kipling  wrote  a  Second  Jungle  Book  for  him. 

Just  So  Stories 

Comical  descriptions  of  how  the  camel  got  his  hump, 
the  rhinoceros  his  skin,  etc.,  in  the  manner  of  folk 
lore  stories. 


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LANG,  ANDREW  (compiler) 
Little  Red  Riding  Hood 
The  Princess  of  the  Glass  Hill 

Each  of  these  collections  contains  several  popular 
tales  besides  the  title  story.  Edited  by  an  excellent 
critic  and  published  at  low  cost. 

LORENZINI,  CARLO 

Adventures  of  Pinocchio 

An  Italian  wonder  story  of  a  wooden  toy  that  turned 
into  a  sure-enough  little  boy.  Published  inexpensively 
by  Button  and  by  Ginn. 

LUCAS,  E.  V.  (compiler) 

Book  of  Verses  for  Children 

The  compiler  has  carefully  'chosen  some  two  hundred 
titles  from  the  work  of  such  poets  as  Burns,  Lewis 
Carroll,  Longfellow,  Riley,  and  Stevenson. 

MAC  MANUS,  SEUMAS  (compiler) 
Donegal  Fairy  Tales 
In  Chimney  Corners 

Irish  folk  lore  is  rich  in  fairy  stories  and  offers  many 
characters  refreshingly  new.  Boys  particularly  enjoy 
the  humor  and  exaggeration  of  Irish  tales. 

NORTON,  CHARLES  ELIOT  (compiler) 
The  Heart  of  Oak  Books 

The  two  volumes  of  rhymes,  fables,  and  nursery 
tales  are  excellent  in  every  way  and  yet  inexpensive. 
The  entire  series,  seven  volumes,  would  form  a  begin- 
ning for  a  child's  library  at  little  cost. 


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OLCOTT,  FRANCES  J.  (compiler) 

The  Book  of  Elves  and  Fairies 
The  unusual  merit  of  this  collection  lies  in  its  classi- 
fied index,  which  will  greatly  aid  the  story-teller  in 
choosing  tales  for  special  purposes. 

PITMAN,  NORMAN  H.  (compiler) 

A  Chinese  Wonder  Book 

All  varieties  of  Chinese  folk  lore  appear  in  this 
translation.  Like  many  other  new  books  for  children, 
this  has  illustrations  by  a  native  artist. 

BHEAD,  Louis  (compiler) 

Bold  Robin  Hood  and  His  Outlaw  Band 
The  old  stories  of  Robin  Hood  made  new  and  finely 
illustrated  by  the  compiler. 

KICHARDS,  LAURA  E. 

Four  Feet,  Two  Feet,  and  No  Feet;  or  Furry 

and  Feathery  Pets  and  How  They  Live. 
This  collection  of  a  hundred  and  fifty  stories  is  re- 
freshing to  the  child  that  longs  for  true  animal  life 
as  a  change  from  fanciful  tales  making  them  do  impos- 
sible things. 

BUSKIN,  JOHN 

The  King  of  the  Golden  River;  or,  The  Black 

Brothers 

A  great  master  of  modern  English  prose  left  to  child- 
hood this  lovely  fairy  tale  with  its  significant  lesson. 

SEWELL,  ANNA 

Black  Beauty 

The  classic  story  of  what  a  horse  is  worth  to  human 
kind,  in  language  and  setting  attractive  to  children 
of  eight  to  ten  years. 


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Si- Mil,  JOHANNA 

Heidi:  Her  Years  of  Wandering  and  Learn- 
in  (j 

The  story  of  a  little  Swiss  girl  who  lives  with  her 
blind  grandfather  in  an  Alpine  hut.  It  possesses  story 
charm  and  value  as  a  travel  book.  Available  in  edi- 
tions of  varying  cost. 

WHITE,  ELIZA  0. 

Ednah  and  Her  Brothers 

Three  children  have  odd  and  amusing  experiences 
about  the  house  of  their  artist  father.  This  is  one  of 
a  group  of  excellent  stories  by  this  author,  who  writes 
for  readers  between  the  ages  of  eight  and  twelve. 

WIGGIN,  KATE  DOUGLAS  AND  SMITH,  N.  A.   (com- 
pilers) 

Tales  of  Laughter 

Two  excellent  critics  of  child  literature  have  col- 
lected from  all  countries  lively  and  amusing  stories 
that  appeal  to  young  children. 

WILKINS,  MARY  E. 

The  Pot  of  Gold 

The  little  story  introduces  a  collection  of  unusual 
fairy  tales,  all  of  them  favorites  with  young  readers. 
The  book  ends  with  a  story  of  different  sort,  called 
"The  Bound  Girl,"  which  shows  New  England  life  in 
Colonial  days. 

WYNNE,  ANNETTE  (compiler) 

For  Days  and  Days 

A  year-round  treasury  of  child  verse  having  poems 
arranged  attractively  for  reading  month  by  month. 


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WYSS,  J.  D. 

Swiss  Family  Robinson 

The  adventures  of  these  island  dwellers  have  long 
been  dear  to  the  hearts  of  youthful  readers.  The  story 
may  be  called  "an  enlarged  Robinson  Crusoe." 

Miscellaneous 

BARNARD,  H.  C. 

The  British  Empire  in  Pictures 
The  British  Isles  in  Pictures 
Two  books  full  of  genuinely  instructive  illustrations. 

BEARD,  LINA  AND  A.  B. 

Little  Folks'  Handy  Book 

Telling  children  to  "amuse  themselves "  is  possible 
when  the  advice  is  accompanied  by  this  book.  It  tells 
how  to  make  playthings  out  of  odds  and  ends  avail- 
able in  any  household. 

BRAINE,  S.  E. 

Merchant  Ships  and  What  They  Bring 
The  pictures  of  C.  J.  DeLacy  will  open  the  eyes  of 
even  very  young  children  to  real  understanding  of  the 
great  world  and  its  doings. 

DEMING,  E.  W.  AND  T.  0. 

American  Animal  Life 

Wild  animals  pictured  in  their  native  haunts  and 
described  in  interesting  fashion  by  T.  O.  Deming;  in- 
structive for  children  of  kindergarten  age. 

DYER,  WALTER  A. 

The  Dogs  of  Boytown 
A  story  that  teaches  boys  how  to  distinguish  the 


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various  breeds  of  dogs  and  how  to  care  properly  for 
their  pets. 

FINNEMORE,  JOHN 

Peeps  at  Switzerland 

Descriptive  stories  and  pictures  of  a  most  beautiful 
country. 

GRIERSON,  ELIZABETH  W. 

The  Children's  Book  of  Edinburgh 
Fact  that  delights  quite  as  much  as  fiction,  regard- 
ing one  of  the  most  romantic  cities  of  the  world. 

HODGES,  GEORGE 

When  the  King  Came. 

The  New  Testament  story  of  the  Master  as  retold 
for  children  of  five  to  eight. 

LUCAS,  E.  V. 

Four  and  Twenty  Toilers 

Picture  and  story  explain  to  children  of  four  to 
six  years  the  trades  of  the  ship-builder,  the  cobbler, 
the  miller,  and  others. 

OLCOTT,  F.  J. 

Bible  Stories  to  Read  and  Tell 
A  successful  presentation  of  Old  Testament  heroic 
narratives  because  told  in  Biblical  language. 

PERKINS,  LUCY  FITCH 

Scotch  Twins 

The  latest  in  a  series  of  illustrated  travel  books  for 
younger  children.  Other  titles,  by  the  same  author, 
in  the  same  form  tell  about  France,  Belgium,  Mexico, 
Ireland,  Japan,  and  Holland. 


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PUMPHREY,  MARGARET  B. 

Stories  of  the  Pilgrims 

These  simple  narratives  carry  the  reader  through  the 
Pilgrim  experiences  in  Holland  and  of  their  first  years 
in  America.  Illustrated. 

SMITH,  E.  BOYD 

The  Farm  Book 

Illustrated  sketches  showing  the  way  a  farmer  works 
in  field,  barn,  and  forest.  The  same  author  has  a 
Seashore  Book  and  a  Railroad  Book  similarly  instructive. 

WARNER,  G.  C. 

Star  Stories  for  Little  Folks 
Easy  reading  that  explains  how  to  begin  using  our 
eyes  on  the  wonders  of  the  heavens. 


GROUP  II 

SUPPLEMENTARY  READING  FOR 
THE  UPPER  GRADES 


GROUP  n 

SUPPLEMENTAL  READING  FOR  THE  UPPER 
GRADES 

Between  the  ages  of  ten  and  fourteen  most 
boys  and  girls  are  busy  indoors  and  outdoors 
with  so  many  interests  that  time  is  lacking  for 
all.  Books  and  studies  contend  with  games  and 
sports  afield  for  their  attention,  so  that  there 
may  seem  small  need  for  advice  on  leisure  read- 
ing. Actually,  however,  children  of  these  years 
are  great  lovers  of  books  having  certain  charac- 
teristics and  are  deeply  influenced  for  good  or 
bad  as  these  characteristics  are  presented  prop- 
erly or  otherwise. 

Deeds  of  daring  may  be  the  heroic  acts  of  his- 
tory or  the  furtive  murders  of  outlaws  and  dime- 
novel  detectives.  An  active  boy  will  read  one 
kind  or  the  other;  he  is  indifferent,  so  long  as  his 
spirit  of  adventure  is  satisfied.  A  girl  will 
similarly  find  her  pleasure  in  tales  of  human 
devotion  and  self-sacrifice  or  in  cheap  sentimen- 
talism.  A  book  like  Little  Women  can  set  up  an 
ideal  of  good  fiction  that  will  lead  her  to  discard 
the  shoddy.  Of  the  worthless  kind  there  is  small 

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choice  between  those  books  unkindly  called  ^Sun- 
day-school stories "  and  their  flashy  opposites  of 
the  East  Lynne  variety.  Both  are  bad  because 
untrue. 

Choice  of  books  for  such  readers  must  be  on 
grounds  of  wholesomeness,  true  courage,  and 
devotion  to  duty.  Real  heroes  and  their  counter- 
parts in  fiction  are  equally  useful  as  ideals,  par- 
ticularly if  people  of  action. 

Other  types  of  reading  greatly  enjoyed  during 
these  years  are  the  practical  handbooks  dealing 
with  manual  arts,  woodcraft,  and  outdoor  sport. 
These  should  all  be  of  the  kind  that  challenge  a 
reader  to  do  the  thing  himself  or  to  create  some- 
thing by  using  hands  and  tools.  Camp  Fire  Girls 
and  Boy  Scouts  get  such  training  under  expert 
guidance;  consequently  they  know  where  to  find 
the  newest  books  on  outdoor  life.  The  boy  or  girl 
unable  to  join  such  an  organization  would  be 
wise  to  get  their  handbooks,  for  they  are  new 
and  well  written,  contain  a  mass  of  information, 
and  have  good  illustrations. 

There  are,  to  be  sure,  many  other  excellent 
books  on  "what  to  do  and  how  to  do  it"  aside 
from  those  listed.  The  number  of  real  stories 
for  boys  and  girls  between  ten  and  fourteen  is 
still  longer,  for  authors  seem  to  enjoy  turning 
out  books  for  such  eager  and  appreciative  read- 
ers. The  tests  of  merit  are  simple.  It  is  excellent 
practice  to  unite  practical  and  imaginative  devel- 


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opment  so  far  as  possible,  and  particularly  to 
prevent  a  taste  for  stories  of  sheer  adventure. 

Biography 

ABBOTT,  JACOB 

History  of  King  Alfred 

Account  of  hero  days  in  England,  when  men  fought 
for  the  rich  provinces  left  vacant  after  the  fall  of 
Rome. 

ALLEN,  CHAKLES  F. 

David  Crockett,  Scout 
A  boy's  book  about  a  real  pioneer  American. 

BALDWIN,  JAMES 

An  American  Book  of  Golden  Deeds 
Stories  about  both  famous  and  obscure  heroes;  of 
interest  to  boys  and  girls  as  well. 

Four  Great  Americans:    Washington,  Web- 
ster, Franklin,  Lincoln 

BEACH,  S.  C. 

Daughters  of  the  Puritans 

Biographical  sketches  of  seven  New  England  women, 
written  with  fine  regard  for  social  environment. 

BROOKS,  ELBRIDGE  S. 

The  Century  Book  of  Famous  Americans 
By  taking  his  readers  to  the  homes  of  famous  Amer- 
icans, this  author  teaches  a  great  deal  regarding  those 
-  who  made  our  country. 


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OUSTER,  ELIZABETH  B. 

Boots  and  Saddles 
Biography  of  General  Ouster. 

DOUBLEDAY,  RuSSELL 

Stories  of  Inventors 

EASTMAN,  CHARLES  A. 

Indian  Heroes  and  Great  Chieftains 
All  boys  have  heard  of  Sitting  Bull.    He  and  fourteen 
other    real    Indians    are    sketched    in    Eastman's    new 
book. 

EGGLESTON,  EDWARD 

Stories  of  Great  Americans  for  Little  Ameri- 
cans 

Some  of  the  characters  considered  are  Daniel 
Boone,  Kit  Carson,  George  Washington,  and  Benjamin 
Franklin. 

FRANKLIN,  BENJAMIN 
Autobiography 

In  simple  language ;  the  story  of  the  activities  of  a 
great  American  and  of  our  nation's  life  during  Revo- 
lutionary days. 

HAPGOOD,  HUTCHINS 

Paul  Jones 

The  life  of  a  sea  hero  put  into  words  by  a  master 
of  expository  writing. 

HORTON,  EDITH 

A  Group  of  Famous  Women 
Biographical    sketches    of    Dolly    Madison,    Queen 
Victoria,  Louise  Alcott,  Frances  Willard,  and  others. 


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HUGHES,  THOMAS 
Alfred  the  Great 

A  standard  story  of  English  life  under  the-  rule  of 
King  Alfred. 

JOHNSON,  C.  H.  L. 

Famous     Discoverers     and     Explorers     of 
America 

JOXCKHEEKE,   ROBERT 

When  I  Was  a  Boy  in  Belgium 

Games,  customs,  the  school  life  of  a  Belgian  youth, 
tho  holidays  of  that  nation  are  some  of  the  topics 
treated  in  this  autobiography. 

MEADOWCROFT,  W.  H. 

The  Boys'  Life  of  Edison 

Inside  views  of  Edison's  laboratories  are  given  by 
a  life-long  companion  of  the  great  inventor. 

MOSES,  BELLE 

Louisa  May  Alcott,  Dreamer  and   Worker. 
A  Story  of  Achievement 

Girls  who  have  read  Little  Women  will  enjoy  this 
biography  showing  why  its  author  wrote  such  a  book. 

NICOLAY,  HELEN 

Boy's  Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln 

Authentic,  interesting,  and  simply  told.  The  author 
used  materials  collected  for  the  full,  authoritative 
work  of  Nicolay  and  Hay. 


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SCUDDER,  HORACE  E. 

George  Washington 

One  of  the  best  single-volume  lives  of  Washington, 
in  language  suited  to  younger  readers. 

WHITE,  JOHN  S. 

Plutarch  for  Boys  and  Girls 

Simplified  accounts  of  the  great  men  of  Greece  and 
Rome. 

WISE,  DANIEL 

Men  of  Renown 

Some  Remarkable  Women 

WRIGHT,  HENRIETTA  C. 

Children's  Stories  of  the  Great  Scientists 


Fiction 

AANRUD,  HANS 

Lisbeth  Lone/frock 

This  attractive  little  narrative  gives  a  picture  of 
home  life  on  a  Norwegian  farm. 

ALCOTT,  LOUISA  MAY 

Little  Women 

The  story  of  Meg,  Jo,  Beth,  and  Amy  March,  who 
lived  in  a  New  England  village  during  Civil  War 
times.  Life  is  made  more  interesting  for  them  by  their 
neighbors,  old  Mr.  Lawrence  and  his  grandson.  Jo,  with 
her  literary  ambitions,  is  a  picture  of  Miss  Alcott  's  own 
youth ;  the  lives  of  her  three  sisters  are  also  depicted 
partially  in  the  other  characters. 


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This  is  undoubtedly  the  best-loved  story  for  girls  thus 
far  written  in  America.  Its  readers  will  go  on  to  com- 
plete the  list  of  Miss  Alcott's  books,  the  most  popular 
being  Little  Men,  Jo's  Boys  and  How  They  Turned 
Out,  Under  the  Lilacs,  and  Eight  Cousins. 

ALDRICH,  THOMAS  BAILEY 
The  Story  of  a  Bad  Boy 

The  boy  is  sent  from  New  Orleans  to  a  Puritanical 
NV\v  England  town  for  his  education.  His  adventurous 
pranks  and  youthful  troubles  are  largely  from  the 
author's  boyhood. 

ALTSHELER,  JOSEPH  A. 

Guns  of  Bull  Run 

Guns  of  Shiloh 

Companion  volumes  showing  the  Civil  War  from  South- 
ern and  from  Northern  points  of  view. 

The  Great  Sioux  Trail 

The  exciting  events  of  the  Indian  Wars  are  here  made 
to  live  again.  The  narrative  is  full  of  suspense  and 
vigorous  action. 

ATKINSON,  ELEANOR 

Johnny  Appleseed;  a  Romance  of  the  Sower 
The  romantic  tale  of  a  traveling  benefactor  of  our 
country  who  dispenser  apple  seeds  through  several  States 
and  thus  greatly  enlarged  the  fruit  crop  of  later  gen- 
erations. 

BALDWIN,  JAMES 

The  Story  of  Roland 
Prose  version  of  the  great  French  hero-poem. 


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BARBOUR,  RALPH  H. 

The  Crimson  Sweater 

The  hero  whose  touchdown  brought  victory  to  his 
school  will  introduce  boys  to  a  highly  prized  series  of 
red-blooded  stories  by  this  author.  Others  are  For  the 
Honor  of  the  School,  Four  in  Camp,  and  Lost  Island. 

BARR,  AMELIA  E. 

The  Bow  of  Orange  Ribbon 

A  story  of  New  York  during  our  War  of  Independ- 
ence, the  romance  being  based  on  the  love  affair  of  a 
Dutch  girl  and  an  English  soldier. 

BOND,  A.  K. 

With  the  Men  Who  Do  Things 
Two  boys  visiting  New  York  City  have  experiences 
that  show  pretty  clearly  how  a  modern  city  is  built  and 
kept  in  operation.    A  sequel  is  Pick,  Shovel  and  PlucK. 

BROOKS,  NOAH 

The  Boy  Emigrants 

The  lively  adventures  of  three  boys  who  went  from 
Illinois  to  California — and  back.  Excellent  illustrations 
by  H.  T.  Dunn  depict  the  most  exciting  situations. 

BURGESS,  THORNTON  W. 

Boy  Scouts  of  Woodcraft  Camp 
A  genuine  Scout  story  containing  much  information 
on  woodcraft  and  a  series  of  exciting  adventures  in 
its  narrative. 

BURNETT,  FRANCES  HODGSON 
Little  Lord  Fauntleroy 

Little  Cedric  Earl  is  living  with  his  American  mother 
in  a  somewhat  shabby  street  of  New  York  when  news 


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comes  of  his  fine  inheritance  in  England.  His  true 
friendliness  and  trust  in  everyone  win  him  the  love  of 
liis  irascible  grandfather  and  at  length  reconcile  the  old 
«'.-irl  to  Cedric's  mother. 

CARRUTH,  HAYDEN 
Track's  End 

"  Being  the  narrative  of  Judson  Pitcher's  strange 
winter  spent  there  as  told  by  himself."  A  story  of 
adventures  in  the  Territory  of  Dakota  when  Indians  won? 
real  Indians. 

COFFIN,  CHARLES  C. 

My  Days  and  Nights  on  the  Battlefield. 
Popular  stories  of  Civil  War  days. 

COFFIN,  ROLAND  E. 

An  Old  Sailor's  Yarns.    Tales  of  Many  Seas 

COOPER,  JAMES  FENIMORE 

The  Last  of  the  Mohicans 

Exciting  incidents  in  the  conflict  between  the  Amer- 
ican Indian  and  the  pioneer  backwoodsman  form  a  fine 
tale  of  adventure. 

The  Spy:    A  Tale  of  Neutral  Ground 

DANA,  RICHARD  HENRY,  JR. 

Two  Years  Before  the  Mast 

\  story  based  on  personal  experiences  aboard  ship 
in  the  days  when  American  sailing  vessels  carried  much 
merchandise  and  romance.  Splendid  descriptions  of  the 
sea  and  her  people. 


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DICKENS,  CHARLES 

David  Copper  field 

Perhaps  his  most  popular  book. 

The  title  character  embodies  the  boyhood  experiences 
of  Dickens  and  his  mature  ambitions.  Mr.  Micawber, 
Uriah  Heep,  and  a  fine  gathering  of  Dickens  folk  give 
variety  and  movement  to  every  chapter. 

DODGE,  MARY  MAPES 

Hans  Brinker,  or  The  Silver  Skates 
A  fine  piece  of  fiction  that  gives  also  an  idea  of  life 
in  Holland. 

DOYLE,  SIR  ARTHUR  CONAN 

Micah  Clarke 

An  historical  novel  with  a  fine  figure  as  its  hero.  The 
events  lie  in  the  England  of  Charles  II  and  inchide  the 
Battle  of  Sedgemoor. 

The  White  Company 

A  narrative  of  the  14th  century  continental  wars, 
with  the  Duke  of  Lancaster  as  its  central  figure.  An 
historical  novel  of  high  merit. 

DUGMORE,  A.  E. 

Adventures  in  Beaver  Stream  Camp 
A  modern  Robinson   Crusoe  story  of  the  Labrador 
coast. 

EATON,  WALTER  P. 

Boy  Scouts  of  Berkshire 

The  author  wrote  from  knowledge  gained  as  a  scout- 
master and  consequently  put  into  his  story-  just  the 
things  that  every  Boy  Scout  ought  to  know. 


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ELIOT,  GEORGE  (MARY  ANNE  EVANS) 

Silas  Marner,  the  Weaver  of  Raveloe 
Scenes  in  a  village  of  Midland  England  a  hundred 
vears  ago.     The  experiences  of  these  humble  characters 
bring  out  the  lesson  that  sin  is  sure  of  punishment  and 
love  full  of  influence  upon  the  hearts  of  others. 

FISHER,  DOROTHY  CANFIELD 

Understood  Betsy 

A  nine-year-old  girl  who  is  greatly  altered  during  her 
year  on  a  Vermont  farm  is  the  heroine  of  this  modern 
story  by  an  excellent  American  writer. 

GARLAND,  HAMLIN 

Boy  Life  on  the  Prairie 

This  author  really  understood  the  life  of  American 
plainfolk  before  writing  about  their  farm  life,  hunting 
expeditions,  and  ranching. 

GOLDSMITH,  OLIVER 

The  Vicar  of  Wakefield 

The  eccentric  but  lovable  Vicar  leads  his  family 
through  many  worldly  trials  in  a  story  of  rustic  scenes 
giving  opportunity  for  criticism  of  social  conditions.  In 
style  this  is  a  book  of  unsurpassed  simplicity  and  beauty. 

HALE,  EDWARD  EVERETT 

The  Man  without  a  Country 
The  fictitious  presentation  of  what  distresses  must  be 
endured  by  a  man  without  a  native  land  to  call  his  own. 
The  incidents  of  Nolan's  life  are  told  with  the  reality 
of  newspaper  style. 

HASKELL,  HELEN  E. 

Katrinka,  the  Story  of  a  Russian  Child 
The  story  shows  a  natural  Russian  background  and  a 


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heroine  typical  of  her  race.  The  book  belongs  to  the 
"Little  Schoolmate  Series"  (Button),  which  purposes 
to  teach  American  children  how  to  esteem  the  foreign- 
born  citizens  of  our  country.  The  series  now  includes 
most  European  countries  as  well  as  Mexico  and  Japan. 
All  are  illustrated. 

HAWTHORNE,  NATHANIEL 
Tanglewood  Tales 
The  Wonder  Book 

A  great  writer's  rendering  of  old  Greek  stories  for 
reading  by  young  children. 

HENTY,  GEORGE  A. 

The  Dragon  and  the  Raven;  or,  the  Days  of 
King  Alfred 

Story  of  the  wars  of  the  Danes  and  Saxons  in  Eng- 
land. 

With  Lee  in  Virginia 

A  Civil  War  story  from  the  standpoint  of  a  young1 
Virginia  planter. 

HEYLINGER,  WILLIAM 

Hartley,  Freshman  Pitcher 
A  story  of  good  baseball  and  good  sportsmanship. 

HILL,  FREDERICK  T. 

On  the  Trail  of  Grant  and  Lee 
An  interesting  way  to  learn  the  facts  of  Civil  Wai- 
history  is  to  read  such  an  account  of  dramatic  inci- 
dents from  the  lives  of  its  two  greatest  heroes. 


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HOUGH,  EMERSON 

Young  Alaskans  in  the  Far  North 

Boys  will  find  plenty  of  adventure  in  this  story  of 
three  boys  cast  adrift  in  a  small  boat  amid  the  wilds  of 
Alaska. 

HUGHES,  THOMAS 

Tom  Brown's  School  Days 

The  classic  story  of  boyhood  life  at  Rugby  in  the  days 
of  Dr.  Arnold. 

JACKSON,  HELEN  HUNT 

Netty's  Silver  Mine,  a  True  Story  of  Colo- 
rado Life. 

Two  young  New  Englanders  journeying  to  their  new 
home  in  the  West  and  learning  the  exciting  ways  of 
primitive  outdoor  life  have  adventures  that  interest 
every  boy  and  girl. 

KIPLING,  RUDYAKD 

"Captains  Courageous" 

A  tale  of  the  fishing  fleets  on  the  Grand  Banks,  but 
more  than  that  the  story  of  how  a  rich  man's  pampered 
boy  was  changed  by  four  months  of  enforced  sea  service. 

Stalky  and  Company 

Presumably  accounts  of  the  author's  own  gay  life  in 
an  English  school. 

KNIPE,  EMILIE  AND  ALDON 
Girls  of  '64 

A  fine  piece  of  historical  fiction,  the  latest  of  the  well- 
known  "Girl  Patriot"  Series. 


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LANIER,  SIDNEY 

Boy's  King  Arthur 

A  simplified  form  of  these  popular  chivalric  narra- 
tives. 

LEVER,  CHARLES 

Charles  O'Malley,  the  Irish  Dragoon 
A  story  of  heroism,  self  denial,  and  patriotism  in  the 
days  when  soldiering  was  a  less  arduous  profession. 

LONDON,  JACK 

The  Call  of  the  Wild 

The  autobiography  of  a  dog  who  lost  his  master  and 
reverted  to  the  original  wild  state  of  his  kind.  A  most 
graphic  picture  of  life  in  the  Klondyke. 

MARTIN,  GEORGE  M.  (MRS.  A.  E.  MARTIN) 

Emmy  Lou,  Her  Book  and  Heart 
A  story  relating  the  adventures  of  a  little  girl  from 
kindergarten  days  until  she  enters  high  school.  ''Dear 
Teacher,"  the  pretty  but  inefficient  substitute  who  first 
led  Emmv  Lou  to  study,  "Miss  Fannie/'  and  all  her 
other  teachers  have  their  parts  in  moulding  her  charac- 
ter. A  book  of  wide  popularity. 

MOON,  GRACE  AND  CARL 
Lost  Indian  Magic 

A  new  mystery  story  that  will  interest  Camp  Fire 
Girls  and  Boy  Scouts  alike.  The  plot  is  based  on  an 
Indian  legend,  giving  chance  for  true  portrayal  of 
early  Indian  customs. 

OTIS,  JAMES 

Toby  Tyler,  or  Ten  Weeks  with  a  Circus 

Everyone  loves  a  circus.     This  story  is  a  favorite  with 


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boys  and  girls  because  it  shows  the  inside  life  of  acro- 
bats and  clowns  along  with  the  experiences  of  Toby 
and  Mr.  Stubbs,  the  monkey. 

PARTRIDGE,  MRS.  E.  N. 

Indian  Legends  for  Camp  Fire  Girls 

PERKINS,  LUCY  FITCH 

Cornelia 

\  new  story  for  girls  that  has  a  heroine  as  interesting 
as  Emmy  Lou. 

PORTER,  JANE 

The  Scottish  Chiefs 

Feats  of  arms  in  the  days  of  Bruce  and  Wallace; 
based  on  Barbour's  poem  giving  the  narrative  of  the 
long  war  during  the  thirteenth  century  for  Scottish  inde- 
pendence. 

PYLE,  HOWARD 

Men  of  Iron 

A  good  picture  of  knighthood  in  a  story  of  England 
during  the  reign  of  Henry  IV. 

Otto  of  the  Silver  Hand 

Adventures  of  a  boy  amid  the  robber  barons  of  old 
Germany. 

RICE,  ALICE  HEGAN 

Mrs.  Wiggs  of  the  Cabbage  Paten 
Mrs.  Wiggs'  wholesale  and  cheery  philosophy  and  her 
vivid  imagination  transform  the  dull  life  of  the  squalid 
Cabbage  Patch  into  a  realm  of  joyous  adventure. 


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RICHARDS,  LAURA  E. 

Captain  January 

An  entrancing  story  about  an  old  lighthouse-keeper 
who  rescued  a  little  girl  from  the  seas.  Girls  will  enjoy 
also  her  Queen  Hildegarde  series  of  stories. 

ROLT- WHEELER,  FRANCIS 
The  Aztec-Hunters 

A  story  of  American  life  a  thousand  years  before 
Columbus. 

The  Wonders  of  the  War  on  Land 

The  experiences  of  an  American  boy  in  Belgium  who 
served  as  a  dispatch  bearer  and  telephone  operator  in 
the  army  that  saved  Paris. 

SCOTT,  SIR  WALTER 

Ivanhoe 

The  chivalric  times  of  Richard  I  are  the  background 
for  fine  romantic  adventures.  This  is  undoubtedly 
Scott's  most  popular  book  as  well  as  being  among  his 
best  historical  novels. 

SEAMAN,  AUGUSTA  H. 
The  Girl  Next  Door 

Girls  as  well  as  boys  like  mystery  stories.  This  one  is 
about  a  girl  of  fourteen,  two  strange  women,  and  a 
mysterious  house  with  closely  shuttered  windows. 

SIDNEY,  MARGARET  (MRS.  H.  N.  LOTHROP) 

Five  Little  Peppers  and  How  They  Grew 

The  joys  of  life  outweigh  its  trials  in  the  little  brown 
house,  the  home  of  "Mamsie"  Pepper  and  five  little 


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Peppers.  This  title  begins  a  famous  series  of  books 
telling  the  story  of  an  optimistic,  self-reliant  Ameri<Mn 
family. 

SlNGMASTER,  ELSIE 

Emmeline 

The  heroic  deeds  of  a  young  girl  at  the  Battle  of 
Gettysburg  give  chance  for  accurate  historical  lessons 
as  well  as  for  a  stirring  story. 

SMITH,  ELIA  S.  (compiler) 

Good  Old  Stories  for  Boys  and  Girls 

A  new  " one- volume  library"  for  children  of  ten  to 
fourteen  years.  Variety  of  material  and  old  as  well  as 
new  authors  make  this  book  attractive.  The  compiler  is 
a  trained  librarian. 

STEVENS,  L.  0.  AND  ALLEN,  E.  F. 

King  Arthur  Stories  from  Malory 

A  good  reworking  of  these  popular  chivalric  tales, 
the  earliest  prose  romances  of  old  England  to  win  uni- 
versal reading. 

STEVENSON,  ROBERT  Louis 
Treasure  Island 

A  story  of  piracy  that  takes  the  reader  out'  on  the 
high  seas  in  search  of  treasure  with  Jim  Hawkins,  John 
Silver,  and  other  striking  personalities. 

TERHUNE,  ALBERT  P. 

Lad:  a  Dog 

One  critic  asserts  that  "no  animal  since  l Black 
Beauty'  has  gained  such  world-wide  recognition." 


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THURSTON,  MRS.  I.  T. 

The  Torch  Bearer 

The  title  shows  every  Camp  Fire  Girl  why  she  will 
enjoy  this  story. 

TWAIN,  MARK  (SAMUEL  LANGHORNE  CLEMENS) 

The  Adventures  of  Huckleberry  Finn 
An  autobiographic  story  of  boy  life  along  the  Missis- 
sippi. 

The  Adventures  of  Tom  Saivyer 

Hair-raising  adventures  of  boyhood  mingled  with 
scenes  from  primitive  days  in  the  Middle  West. 

VERNE,  JULES 

Twenty  Thousand  Leagues  Under  the  Sea 
Stories  of  real  submarines  are  no  more  thrilling  than 
this  imaginative  account  of  Captain  Nemo's  adventures. 
Verne's  Mysterious  Island  is  a  sequel. 

VERRILL,  A.  H. 

Uncle  Abner's  Legacy 

A  story  of  pluck  and  common  sense,  dealing  with  some 
children  who  made  a  farm  pay. 

WALLER,  MARY  E. 

Daughter  of  the  Rich 

The  story  of  a  girl  who  left  her  home  of  wealth  to 
spend  a  year  on  a  farm.  In  spirit  the  story  has  some- 
thing reminiscent  of  Miss  Alcott's  writing. 

WEBSTER,  JEAN 

When  Patty  Went  to  College 
Amusing   stories    of   life   in    a   fashionable   boarding 
school  and  in  an  Eastern  college. 


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\\"K;<;IX,  KATE  DOUGLAS  (MRS.  G.  C.  BIGGS) 
The  Bird's  Christmas  Carol 

A  story  full  of  pathos  and  humor  relating  the  efforts 
of  an  invalid  child  to  make  everyone  happy  on  her  last 
Christmas.  The  humor  lies  in  the  efforts  of  the  Ruggles 
family  to  make  a  proper  appearance  at  the  feast  given  in 
their  honor. 

Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm 


A  highly  imaginative  child  finds  a  world  of  joyous 
adventure  amid  the  most  prosaic  circumstances.  Slio 
leaves  her  own  happy-go-lucky  family  to  gain  an  edu- 
cation while  living  with  two  maiden  aunts.  The  sym- 
pathetic friendship  of  Mr.  Ladd  keeps  alive  within  her 
nature  the  imaginative  fire  that  might  have  boon 
quenched  by  stern,  prosaic  Aunt  Miranda. 

Timothy's  Quest;  a  story  for  anybody,  young 
or  old,  ivho  cares  to  read  it 

An  endearing  orphan  boy  sets  out  in  search  of  an- 
other home  with  his  two  comrades,  "Lady  Gay"  and 
the  dog,  as  additional  responsibilities.  Their  adventures 
and  final  happiness  form  a  charming  story. 


Poems  and  Plays 

BATES,  KATHEBINE  LEE 

Fairy  Gold 
Delightful  modern  poems  and  nonsense  verses. 

LONGFELLOW,  HENRY  WADSWORTH 

The  Children's  Own  Longfellow 
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including  such  popular  pieces  as  "The  Village  Black- 
smith," "Evangeline,"  "Paul  Kevere's  Ride,"  and 
"The  Wreck  of  the  Hesperus." 

MACKAY,  CONSTANCE  D. 

f  Patriotic  Plays  and  Pageants  for  Young 
People 

The  volume  contains  eight  one-act  plays  and  three 
simple  pageants,  all  suitable  for  presentation  by  chil- 
dren in  the  upper  grades. 

OLCOTT,  FRANCES  J.  (compiler) 
Story -Telling  Poems 

A  carefully  graded  collection  of  narrative  poems  for 
boys  and  girls. 

SKINNER,  ADA  M.  AND  ELEANOR  L. 
Children's  Plays 

A  new  work  that  deserves  praise  because  it  offers  ex- 
cellent short  plays  for  presentation  by  children  between 
the  ages  of  ten  and  twelve. 

STEVENSON,  BURTON  E. 

Home  Book  of  Verse  for  Young  Folks 
Like  Scudder's  book  of  stories,  this  is  a  wonderful 
collection  of  the  best  in  poetry  for  younger  children. 
The  compiler  has  had  wide  experience  as  an  anthologist 
and  has  excellent  taste. 

TUCKER,  E.  L.  AND  RYAN,  E.  L. 

Historical  Plays  of  Colonial  Days 

WALKER,  A.  J. 

Little  Plays  from  American  History 


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WIGGIN,  KATE  DOUGLAS  AND  SMITH,  N.  A.  (com- 
pilers) 
Golden  Numbers;  a  Book  of  Verse  for  Youth 

A  full  and  fine  selection  of  poems  by  English  and 
American  writers.  This  collection  is  unusual  for  quality 
and  number  of  poems  included. 

History,  Adventure,  and  Travel 

BACON,  E.  M.  (editor) 

The  Boy's  HaTduyt.    English  Voyages  of  Ad- 
venture and  Discovery. 

A  modern  version  of  the  contemporary  accounts  of 
Richard  Hakluyt  regarding  voyages  of  the  Elizabethan 
adventurers — Cabot,  Frobisher,  Hawkins,  Drake,  and 
Raleigh. 

BORUP,  GEOKGE 

A  Tenderfoot  with  Peary 

Popular  account  of  an  American  exploration  of  the 
Arctic  regions. 

BOSTOCK,  FRANK  C. 

The  Training  of  Wild  Animals 

BROWNE,  EDITH  A. 
South  America 

This  travel  book  for  children  is  peculiarly  important 
for  present-day  readers.  It  is  one  of  a  series  known  as 
"Peeps  at  Many  Lands,'*  which  covers  most  of  the 
civilized  world.  Other  volumes  treat  of  Canada,  France, 
England,  India,  and  Japan. 


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BULLEX,  FRANK  T. 

The  Cruise  of  the  "Cachalot"   'Round  the 

World  After  Sperm  Whales 
Kipling  says,  "IVe  never  read  anything  that  equals 
it  in  its  deep-sea  wonder  and  mystery,  nor  do  I  think 
that  any  book  before  has  so  completely  covered  the  whole 
business  of  whale  fishing  and  at  the  same  time  given  such 
real  and  new  sea  pictures. ' '  One  of  the  popular  E very- 
boy's  Library  series. 

CATLIN,  GEORGE 

The  Boy's  Catlin.    My  Life  Among  the 

Indians. 

A  famous  record  of  facts  reading  like  romance.  It  is 
a  standard  work  on  Indian  life  and  customs,  here  con- 
densed and  rearranged  for  boys. 

DOUBLEDAY,  RuSSELL 

Cattle  Ranch  to  College 

This  true  story  of  primitive  Western  life  has  all  the 
expected  tales  of  bronco-busting,  hunting,  and  fights 
with  Indians. 

GRENFELL,  WILFRED  T. 

Adrift  on  an  Ice  Pan 

The  author  has  illustrated  with  photographs  his 
thrilling  story  of  an  escape  from  death  off  the  Labrador 
coast. 

LAMB,  CHARLES 

The  Adventures  of  "Ulysses 

Young  boys  enjoy  this  simplified  version  of  the  Greek 
hero  story  quite  as  much  as  their  older  brothers  enjoy 
Lamb's  Tales  from  Sliaksvere. 


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LANIER,  SIDNEY 

The  Boy's  Froissart 

History  and  romance  of  olden  times  in  England, 
Spain,  and  France.  The  fourteenth  century  is  here  dis- 
played with  the  truth  of  an  eyewitness  and  with  the 
necessary  editing  done  by  a  skilled  worker. 

PARKMAN,  FRANCIS 
The  Oregon  Trail 

Illustrated  by  Frederic  Remington. 

These  first-hand  facts  gathered  by  a  trained  observer 
crossing  the  Continent  in  1846,  give  youthful  readers 
an  excellent  understanding  of  Indian  life.  Romance 
and  American  social  history  are  both  gained  from  fol- 
lowing Parkman's  trail. 

PERRY,  W.  C. 

The  Boy's  Iliad 
The  Boy's  Odyssey 
Simplified  hero  stories  of  ancient  Greece. 

REMINGTON,  FREDERIC 

The  Way  of  an  Indian 

The  work  of  a  splendid  outdoor  artist  who  specialized 
on  Western  subjects,  such  as  Indians,  horses,  and  cow- 
boys. 

STEVENS,  RUTH  D.  AND  DAVID  H. 

American  Patriotic  Prose  and  Verse 

Poems  and  prose  selections  historically  arranged  tell 
the  story  of  our  country  through  the  words  of  our  best 
writers.  Biographical  notes  contain  incidents  concern- 
ing the  events  described  and  the  circumstances  of  com- 
position. 


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STOCKTON,  FRANK  R. 

Buccaneers  and  Pirates  of  Our  Coast 
True  stories  of  Captain  Kidd  and  his  forerunners  in 
piracy  along  the  Atlantic  coast. 

TAPPAN,  EVA  MARCH 

American  Hero  Stories:  1492-1865 
The  Story  of  the  Greek  People 
For  young  readers. 

TAYLOR,  BAYARD 

Boys  of  Other  Countries 

VAN  LOON,  HENDRIK  "W. 

Ancient  Man 

A  distinguished  historian  begins  in  this  volume  a 
series  of  books  telling  children  the  history  of  civiliza- 
tion. His  own  simple  drawings  will  help  young  readers 
to  enjoy  greatly  the  clear,  interesting  text. 

Outdoor  Books 

ADAMS,  JOSEPH  H. 

Harper's  Outdoor  Book  for  Boys 

Common-sense  guidance  for  boys  who  like  to  make 
things  for  outdoor  sport  and  for  useful  service  as  well. 

BEARD,  LIN  A  AND  A.  B. 

Girl  Pioneers  of  America 

On  the  Trail 

Two  books  sure  to  interest  Camp  Fire  Girls.  The 
second  tells  how  to  prepare  oneself  for  hiking  and  camp- 
ing. 


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BURGESS,  THORNTON  W. 

The  Burgess  Bird  Book  for  Children 

Humor  and  scientific  fact  are  here  blended  admirably. 
The  colored  pictures  give  accurate  representations  of 
the  various  birds,  a  fact  that  makes  the  book  fairly  ex- 
pensive. 

CLARK,  W.  J.  AND  DAWSON,  F.  T. 

Baseball;  Individual  Play  and  Team  Play  hi 
Detail 

DAVIS,  PARKE  H. 

Football,  the  American  Intercollegiate  Gawr 

FABRE,  J.  H. 

Wonders  of  Instinct 

A  famous  entomologist's  absorbing  story  of  small  ani- 
mals and  insects. 

HUDSON,  W.  H. 

The  Book  of  a  Naturalist 

Delightful  sketches  of  animals  in  native  surroundings, 
descriptions  of  common  field-flowers,  and  anecdotes  that 
unite  the  author's  experiences  into  a  remarkable  nature 
book. 

JOB,  H.  K. 

How  to  Study  Birds.    A  Practical  Guide  for 
Amateur  Bird  Lovers  and  Camera  Hunters 

Tells  what  to  look  for;  to  be  used  with  an  illustrated 
handbook. 


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KINGSLAND,  FLORENCE 

Tlie  Book  of  Indoor  and  Outdoor  Games, 
with  Suggestions  for  Entertainments 

LOUNSBERRY,  ALICE 

Guide  to  the  Trees 

The  Wild  Flower  Book  for  Young  People 

McGnAW,  J.  J. 

How  to  Play  Baseball 

MARKS,  JEANNETTE 

Vacation  Camping  for  Girls 

PRICE,  0.  W. 

The  Land  We  Live  In;  the  Boy's  Book  of 

Conservation. 

The  variety  and  value  of  our  natural  resources  are  of 
great  importance  to  the  future  of  America.  Everyone 
who  expects  to  become  a  voter  should  know  the  facts 
so  as  to  aid  in  their  conservation. 

REED,  CHESTER  A. 

Flower  Guide:    Wild  Flowers  East  of  the 

Rockies 

A  standard  guide  to  over  three  hundred  American 
wild  flowers.  Well  illustrated. 

ROGERS,  JULIA  E. 

Trees  That  Every  Child  Should  Know 
The  marks  of  identification  are  so  simple  that  any 
child  of  twelve  can  quickly  decide  on  the  classification 
of  any  American  tree  encountered.     This  author  has  a 


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companion  volume  on  Wild  Animals  Every  Child  Should 
Know. 

RUTLEDGE,  EDMUND 
Every  Boy's  Book 

Outdoor  and  indoor  sports  fully  explained,  with  some 
elementary  facts  regarding  the  useful  arts. 

SERVISS,  C.  P. 

Astronomy  with  the  Naked  Eye 

SETON,  ERNEST  THOMPSON 

Wild  Animals  I  Have  Known 
A  series  of  character  stories  about  the   animals  of 
North  America. 

STONE,  W.  AND  CRAM,  W.  E. 
American  Animals 

TOMUNSON,  E.  T. 

Places  Young  Americans  Want  to  Know 

\  book  that  takes  its  readers  to  the  beautiful  and 
historic  spots  of  the  United  States. 

Practical  Handbooks 

BAKER,  BAY  STANNARD 

The  Boy's  Book  of  Inventions 

An  easy  and  interesting  introduction  to  such  subjects 
as  wireless  telegraphy,  X-ray  photography,  airplanes, 
Submarines,  and  automobiles. 


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BEARD,  DAN 

The  American  Boys'  Book  of  Signs,  Signals 
and,  Symbols 

BEARD,  LIN  A  AND  A.  B. 

The  American  Girl's  Handy  Book 
This  volume  gives  clear  directions  for  every  sort  of 
household  art  and  service,  as  well  as  good  advice  regard- 
ing outdoor  amusements. 

BURROUGHS,  W.  D. 

The  Wonderland  of  Stamps 

A  book  sure  to  make  enthusiastic  stamp  collectors  of 
its  young  readers. 

CLARKE,  C.  E. 

The  Boys'  Book  of  Chemistry 
Present-day   chemistry    explained   with   the   help    of 
easy  experiments. 

CLAUDY,  CARL,  H. 

The  Battle  of  Baseball 

To  learn  how  the  great  American   game  should  be 
played,  read  this  description  of  scientific  baseball. 

COLLINS,  ARCHIE  F. 

The  Book  of  Electricity 
Written  to  conform  to  the  tests  of  the  Boy  Scouts. 

The  Book  of  Magic 

Being  a  simple  description  of  some  good  tricks  and 
how  to  do  them,  with  patter. 


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The  Book  of  Stars 

An  elementary  guide,  of  special  interest  to  Boy  Scouts. 
Handicraft  for  Boys 

GOLDSMITH,  MILTON 

Practical  Things  with  Simple  Tools 
Easy  rules  to  follow  in  making  things  at  a  workbench. 

LISLE,  CLIFTON 

Boy  Scout  Entertainments 

A  new  book  that  meets  a  demand  for  help  in  getting 
up  indoor  entertainments  for  Boy  Scout  organizations. 

MATHIEWS,  FRANKLIN  K.  (editor) 

The  Boy  Scouts  Year  Book 

This  volume  for  1919  contains  splendid  short  stories, 
special  articles  by  prominent  men,  and  a  world  of  gen- 
eral information  on  the  Boy  Scout  movement. 

RICE,  GRANTLAND  (editor) 

The  Boys'  Book  of  Sports 

This  is  a  collection  of  articles  by  famous  players  of 
all  the  outdoor  sports  telling  how  they  themselves  won 
their  honors.  Every  boy  will  enjoy  it  more  than  fiction. 

SETON,  ERNEST  THOMPSON 

The  Woodcraft  Manual  for  Boys 
Tells  how  to  do  things  outdoors.   A  new  book  that 
will  interest  every  Boy  Scout.    Well  illustrated. 

VANCE,  F.  T. 

Ways  for  Boys  to  Do  Things 


GROUP  III 

SUPPLEMENTARY  READING  FOR 
HIGH    SCHOOL    DAYS 


GROUP  III 

SUPPLEMENTARY  READING  FOR  HIGH 
SCHOOL  DAYS 

The  youth  of  fourteen  will  be  wise  to  count 
well  the  spare  hours  lying  ahead  until  college  or 
business  affairs  demand  their  due.  Three  or 
four  years  more  will  bring  an  abrupt  change  for 
all  who  have  continued  beyond  a  secondary  school 
training.  In  school  or  out,  young  people  of  four- 
teen to  eighteen  years  are  still  free  to  choose  their 
plan  of  life.  Their  reading,  therefore,  should  be 
selected  with  that  fact  in  mind. 

Many  persons  enter  college  without  definite 
purposes.  According  to  a  recent  investigation 
covering  the  cases  of  two  thousand  freshmen  at 
various  colleges,  fifty-four  of  every  hundred  had 
no  life  work  in  view.  This  is  not  far  from  the 
average,  perhaps,  for  every  entering  college 
class.  Such  students  are  far  less  ready  to  select 
their  courses  than  their  fellows  who  have  found 
their  work.  Possibly  severe  self-analysis  in  the 
light  of  earlier  reading  would  have  prevented 
their  entering  college  at  all,  or  at  least  would 
have  determined  the  course  of  their  training. 
Surely  good  novels  and  biography  as  well  would 

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set  them  thinking  of  their  own  positions  in  life. 

To  meet  these  needs  Group  III  offers  many 
titles  intended  to  cause  such  self  examination. 
The  biography,  fiction,  and  miscellaneous  lists  are 
given  over  largely  to  life  in  its  variety  of  employ- 
ments and  demands.  A  more  complete  list  of 
books  on  vocations  and  professions  appears  in 
Group  VI,  to  which  the  reader  is  referred  for 
further  guidance. 

New  kinds  of  reading  appearing  in  Group  III 
are  books  of  travel  and  adventure  giving  a  fail- 
view  of  American  life.  A  few  masters  like  Scott, 
Dickens,  and  George  Eliot  seem  to  fall  within 
this  division;  otherwise  the  group  is  given  over 
largely  to  American  fiction.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  having  covered  so  much  of  the  volume  no 
one  will  fall  back  on  contemporary  novels  exclu- 
sively. Thackeray  and  other  great  ones  of  the 
past  as  well  as  the  best  of  the  moderns  await 
him.  A  large  measure  of  fruitful  reading  lies  in 
the  English  and  Russian  fiction  of  the  past 
twenty-five  years;  quite  as  much  is  to  be  gained 
from  European  drama  of  the  same  period.  All 
this  is  important  to  the  educated  American  who 
judges  his  own  land  without  prejudice,  as  might 
a  foreigner,  even  while  he  enjoys  all  its  benefits. 


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Biography 

A.\  TIN,  MARY 

The  Promised  Land 

An  autobiography  expressing  the  love  of  a  persecuted 
race  for  these  United  States. 

BOLTON,  SARAH 

Lives  of  Girls  Who  Became  Writers,  Reform- 
ers, Artists,  and  Nurses 

DAVIS,  RICHARD  HARDING 

Real  Soldiers  of  Fortune 

EWART,  HENRY  C. 

Heroes  and  Martyrs  of  Science 
Sketches  of  the  men  who  were  compelled  to  fight  super- 
stition and  incredulity  in  winning  success. 

FABRE,  J.  H. 

The  Mason  Bees 

Much  charming  autobiography  is  spread  through  these 
living  accounts  of  insect  habits.  Contains  Fabre's  re- 
markable essay,  "The  Story  of  My  Cats." 

FARIS,  JOHN  T. 

Makers  of  Our  History 

Life  sketches  of  twenty-eight  famous  American  poets, 
statesmen,  inventors,  and  others. 

Men  Who  Made  Good 

GARKELL,  ELIZABETH  C. 

The  Life  of  Charlotte  Bronte 
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miration  by  another  woman  of  letters.    Girls  of  fourteen 
or  over  find  it  most  enjoyable. 

GATES,  ELEANOR 

The  Biography  of  a  Prairie  Girl 

GILCHRIST,  B.  B. 

The  Life  of  Mary  Lyon 
Biography  of  the  founder  of  Mount  Holyoke  College. 

HAGERDORN,  HERMANN 

The  Boy's  Life  of  Theodore  Roosevelt 

New  and  authentic;  well  written  and  packed  with 
anecdotes. 

HUGHES,  THOMAS 

David  Livingstone 

This  story  of  a  great  religious  adventurer  has  the 
charm  of  fiction. 

ILBS,  G. 

Leading  Avnerican  Inventors 

Such  names  as  Whitney,  Morse,  and  Mergenthaler  are 
included. 

KELLER,  HELEN 

The  Story  of  My  Life 

Unique  in  its  lessons  of  persistence  and  cooperation. 
The  story  of  Helen  Keller's  victory  over  blindness  and 
deafness  should  hearten  anyone  striving  for  an  educa- 
tion against  less  formidable  obstacles. 


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LEUPP,  FRANCIS  E. 

George  Westinghouse:  His  Life  and  Achieve- 
ments 

The  romantic  story  of  a  great  American  inventor,  told 
by  mi  admirable  narrator. 

MOFFETT,  CLEVELAND 

Careers  of  Danger  and  Daring 
Sketches  that  show  the  dangers  brought  upon  modern 
times  through  scientific  study  and  invention. 

NICOLAY,  J.  G. 

Short  Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
The  author  is  among  the  first  rank  of  the  many  Lin- 
coln biographers. 

PARKMAN,  MARY  R. 

Heroes  of  Today 

Heroines  of  Service 

The  men  and  women  treated  in  these  sketches  have 
done  great  things  for  our  country  within  recent  times. 
Many  of  them  are  still  living. 

PLUTARCH 
Lives 

An  ancient  writer's  pictures  of  the  great  men  of  Greece 
and  Rome.  This  is  the  source  of  much  learned  regard- 
ing them  through  literature  and  history. 

E ic HARDS,  LAURA  E. 

Florence  Nightingale 

The  life  story  of  the  first  woman  in  modern  times  to 
represent  humanity  on  the  battlefield  by  such  deeds  as 
the  Red  Cross  now  has  made  commonplace. 


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STODDARD,  W.  0. 

Men  of  Business 
Some  life  sketches  of  successful  American  business 

men. 


,  MARY  H. 
Pilgrims  of  Today 

This  book  points  out  great  men  who  are  so  near  to 
present  times  that  their  value  may  be  overlooked.  The 
list  includes  John  Muir,  Carl  Schurz,  Jacob  Riis,  and 
Joseph  Pulitzer. 

WISTER,  OWEN 

Ulysses  S.  Grant 

Fiction 

ALDRICH,  THOMAS  BAILEY 

Marjorie  Daw 

A  short,  highly  entertaining  story  with  a  surprising 
conclusion.  Some  of  its  reality  is  due  to  the  letter  form 
of  narration. 

ANDREWS,  MARY  RAYMOND  SHIPMAN 
The  Courage  of  the  Commonplace 

A  good  boy  story.  It  opens  with  a  scene  at  Yale  on 
Taps  Day,  then  takes  the  reader  with  the  hero  to  a 
mining  town,  and  finally  returns  to  Yale  for  a  Com- 
mencement celebration  at  which  the  hero  is  praised  for 
his  courageous  deeds. 

The  Perfect  Tribute 
A  patriotic  story  of  high  rank,  dealing  with  Lincoln's 


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life  at  the  time  of  his  Gettysburg  Address.    A  wounded 
Confederate  boy  is  the  other  hero. 

ASHMUN,  MARGARET 

Isabel  Carleton's  Year 

A  story  of  the  youthful  happiness  of  a  very  human 
girl  and  her  friends  during  their  last  year  in  high 
school. 

BACON,  JOSEPHINE  DASKAM 
The  Madness  of  Philip 

Charming  short  stories  about  little  boys ;  intended  for 
grown-ups  as  well  as  for  older  sisters  and  brothers. 

On  Our  Hill 

Chapters  from  the  gay  youth  of  three  children,  closed 
with  the  mother's  speech  in  verse: 

'  *  Hail  and  farewell !    I  bade  you  in, 

Now  you  must  find  your  way. 

My  road  droops  to  the  dust,  you  win 

The  wonder  of  the  day. 

But  while  we  wave  our  hands  and  smile, 

We'll  love,  dears,  through  the  last,  long  mile." 

Smith  College  Stories 

Ten  short  stories'  of  daily  life  in  a  well-known  Amer- 
ican college. 

BLACKMORE,  RICHARD  D. 

Lorna  Doone 

A  tale  of  feud  and  love  in  Stuart  times.  Lovely  de- 
scriptions of  Exmoor  are  set  in  rhythmic  prose. 

BOTSFORD,  C.  A. 

Joining  the  Colors 
An  Army  captain  who  went  through  the  World  War 


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used  his  experiences  in  making  this  exciting  story  of 
how  Big  Van,  the  football  hero,  went  into  service  and 
on  to  glorious  feats  of  bravery  in  France 

BROWN,  JOHN 

Rab  and  His  Friends 

A  classic  story  of  dog  fidelity.  Readers  should  choose 
a  copy  having  E.  T.  M'L's  sketch  of  the  author. 

BULWER-LYTTON,  LORD 

The  Last  Days  of  Pompeii 

A  graphic  picture  of  luxurious  Roman  life  in  the  days 
of  Titus,  with  a  vivid  panorama  of  the  fateful  eruption 
(79  A.  D.)  as  its  climax. 

BUNYAN,  JOHN 

The  Pilgrim's  Progress  from  This  World  to 

That  Which  Is  to  Come 

A  great  allegory  of  human  life ;  real  settings  for  won- 
derfully clear  visions  of  things  beyond  the  earth.  The 
style  is  simple  and  clear  by  reason  of  the  pure  Anglo- 
Saxon  language  used. 

BURNETT,  FRANCES  HODGSON 

T.  Tembarom 

A  likable  Yankee  boy  just  misses  an  English  inheri- 
tance, good  naturedly  blunders  in  the  unfamiliar  circles 
of  English  aristocracy,  and  finally  wins  every  sort  of 
good  fortune. 

CERVANTES,  SAAVEDRA,  MIGUEL  DE 
Don  Quixote  de  la  Mancha 

An  English  abridgement  by  Judge  Perry  is  the  popu- 
lar edition  for  younger  readers.  See  p.  147. 


READING  A  LETTER  FROM  FATHER  (Little  Women) 
From  Drawing  by  Jessie  Willcox  Smith 
Courtesy  of  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston 


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CHURCHILL,  WINSTON 

The  Crisis 

A  comprehensive  study  of  American  life  during  the 
Civil  War  is  behind  this  story,  which  contains  much  f»H 
in  fiction  form  and  sketches  of  many  prominent  men. 
The  lovers  in  the  story  are  on  opposite  sides  of  tin 
dividing  line. 

Richard  Carvel 

American  and  English  society  at  the  time  of  the  Revo- 
lution shown  in  the  form  of  an  autobiography.  Many 
historical  figures  of  both  countries  are  described  graphi- 
cally. 

DAVIS,  RICHARD  HARDING 

Gallegher,  and  Other  Stories 
The  title  story  is  a  New  York  newspaper  yarn;  the 
others  are  almost  as  virile  and  ' '  all- American. " 

Soldiers  of  Fortune 

The  hero  of  these  adventures  sees  action  all  over  the 
world;  under  various  guises  he  does  everything  adven- 
turous from  fighting  the  Arabs  to  lassooing  cattle. 

DICKENS,  CHARLES 

The   Posthumous    Papers    of    the    Pickwick 

Club 

The  misadventures  of  Mr.  Pickwick's  group  open  the 
road  to  an  insight  into  English  life  through  a  use  of 
some  three  hundred  characters  grave,  gay,  and  »ro- 
tesque. 

The  Old  Curiosity  Shop 

Often  criticised  severely  as  mawkish  in  the  story  of 
little  Nell  but  always  to  be  read  for  the  sake  of  Mrs. 


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Jarley,   the   Brasses,   Codlin,   Dick   Swiveller,   and  the 
Marchioness. 

A  Tale  of  Two  Cities 

A  story  of  England  and  France  in  the  days  of  the 
French  Revolution,  being  a  melodramatic  treatment  of 
Carlyle's  vivid  writing  on  the  subject. 

DOYLE,  SIR  ARTHUR  CONAN 

The  Adventures  of  Sherlock  Holmes 

The  Adventures,  and  also  the  Memoirs,  are  standard 
among  detective  stories  of  the  better  sort — swash- 
buckling1 at  times  but  not  sensational,  and  with  a  fine 
basis  of  inductive  reasoning  for  all  conclusions. 

DUNCAN,  NORMAN 

The  Cruise  of  the  "Shining  Light" 
A  sea  tale  by  one  familiar  with  the  northern  coast 
people  and  their  ways. 

EGGLESTON,  EDWARD 

The  Hoosier  Schoolmaster 

Pioneer  days  in  Indiana  are  shown  at  close  range  by  a 
writer  who  journeyed  through  the  Middle  West  shortly 
after  the  events  described.  The  story  has  something  real 
regarding  a  past  generation  of  American  life. 

ELIOT,  GEORGE  (MARY  ANNE  EVANS) 

The  Mill  on  the  Floss 

In  a  quaint  English  country  town  there  is  worked 
out  the  tragedy  of  Maggie's  inner  life,  which  reaches 
its  climax  in  her  yielding  to  an  unworthy  lover.  The 
affection  and  antipathy  of  brother  and  sister  have  auto- 
biographical value. 


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Romola 

This  historical  novel  gives  contrasted  pictures  of 
Lorenzo  de  Medici  and  Savonarola  in  the  rich  setting 
of  Renaissance  Florence.  The  roles  of  Tito  and  Romola 
are  devised  to  demonstrate  the  processes  of  sin  and  retri- 
bution, of  suffering  and  spiritual  growth. 

FISHER,  DOROTHY  CANFIELD 

The  Bent  Twig 

A  story  of  American  home  life  showing  two  entirely 
different  types  of  family.  A  noble  mother,  "who  could 
enjoy  a  sunset  even  when  her  sleeves  were  out  of  style, " 
leads  her  children  through  many  trials  until  she  proves 
the  truth  of  the  proverb  of  the  bent  twig.  Her  nephew, 
handicapped  by  a  lack  of  early  training,  furnishes  the 
contrast. 

FORD,  PAUL  LEICESTER 

Janice  Meredith 

A  novel  of  Revolutionary  days,  wherein  Washington, 
Andre  and  other  notables  have  active  parts.  The  heroine 
is  a  girl  of  remarkable  attractiveness  for  leaders  on 
both  sides  of  the  conflict. 

GASKELL,  ELIZABETH  C. 

Cranford,  and  Other  Tales 

Quiet  life  in  an  English  village  portrayed  with  care 
for  characterization  and  atmosphere.  Called  "the  first 
humoristic  description  in  England  since  the  days  of 
Charles  Lamb." 

HAWKINS,  ANTHONY  HOPE 

The  Prisoner  of  Zenda 

A  modern  tale  of  chivalric  love  and  honor  in  an 
imaginary  setting.  His  Rupert  of  Hentzau  is  an  equally 
romantic  story  laid  in  the  Austrian  Tyrol. 


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HoRNUNG,  E.  W. 

The  Amateur  Cracksman 

Stories  about  a  most  gentlemanly  burglar  operating  in 
London  and  its  suburbs. 

JACKSON,  HELEN  HUNT 

Ramona 

A  sympathetic  picture  of  Indian  life  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, intended  to  win  just  treatment  for  the  inheritors 
of  Spanish  colonization.  An  abundance  of  local  color 
and  a  love  plot  of  wide  appeal  have  perpetuated  the 
popularity  of  this  novel. 

JEROME,  JEROME  K. 

Three  Men  in  a  Boat 

A  holiday  trip  up  the  Thames.  This  comical  story 
will  always  live  because  of  its  humorous  dialogue  and 
descriptions  of  awkward  situations. 

JOHNSON,  OWEN 

Stover  at  Yale 

Continuing  the  author's  stories  of  life  in  an  Amer- 
ican school,  the  emphasis  being  wholly  on  the  lightsome 
side  of  college  life. 

The  Varmint 

The  experiences  of  this  spoiled  boy  in  Lawrenceville 
school  shows  what  boys  in  general  like  and  do  not  like 
in  one  another. 

LORIMER,  GEORGE  H. 

Letters  from  a  Self-made  Merchant  to  His 

Son 

Fiction,  but  fact  also;  business  sense  in  the  guise  of 
fatherly  letters. 


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MARRYAT,  FREDERICK 

Mr.  Midshipman  East 

The  author  was  a  sea  rover  for  twenty-five  years. 
Out  of  his  experiences  came  this  narrative  of  stirring 
.id ventures,  full  of  rare  humor.  The  hero  gets  into  many 
absurd  situations  through  his  bumptious  refusals  to  sub- 
mit to  naval  discipline. 

MASEFIELD,  JOHN 

Jim  Davis 

\  story  of  what  happened  to  a  English  boy  kidnaped 
by  smugglers  a  hundred  years  ago.  Masefield's  knowl- 
edge of  sea  life  appears  here  as  in  his  famous  poems. 

MITCHELL,  S.  WEIR 

Amos  Judd 

This  story  is  a  curious  mingling  of  Yankee  shrewd- 
ness and  Oriental  mysticism.  For  safety  the  son  of  an 
Indian  rajah  is  brought  to  America,  where  he  grows 
up  in  a  New  England  environment.  His  wonderful 
faculty  of  foreseeing  events  is  the  basis  of  a  well-ex- 
ecuted plot. 

Hugh  Wynne,  Free  Quaker 

A  fine  historical  novel  of  Revolutionary  times,  with 
scenes  in  Philadelphia,  at  Valley  Forge,  and  in  two 
famous  battles  for  American  independence. 

MONTGOMERY,  LUCY  M. 
Anne  of  Green  Gables 

This  story  and  its  sequel,  Anne  of  Avonlea,  tell  of  a 
delightful  child  whose  individuality  makes  its  impres- 
sion upon  all  sorts  of  readers. 


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NORRIS,  FRANK 

The  Pit 

A  genuinely  American  novel,  centered  in  the  Chicago 
Stock  Exchange.  It  is  the  sequel  of  The  Octopus  and 
was  to  have  been  second  in  a  trilogy  depicting  the  rais- 
ing, distribution,  and  consumption  of  wheat. 

NORRIS,  KATHLEEN 

Mother 

The  beautiful  story  of  an  American  home  that  is 
directed  by  the  gentle  force  of  motherly  love. 

OLLIVANT,  ALFRED 

Owd  Bob,  the  Grey  Dog  of  Kenmuir:  Bob, 

Son  of  Battle 

The  story  of  a  sheep  dog.  With  fine  humanity  toward 
animal  nature  is  joined  a  narrative  style  suggestive  of 
Kipling. 

SCOTT,  SIR  WALTER 
The  Antiquary 

Scotland  in  the  year  1800,  with  all  its  humble  fru- 
galities and  the  sturdy  characteristics  of  his  own  people, 
gave  Sir  Walter  material  ready  at  hand  for  one  of  his 
most  attractive  tales. 

The  Fair  Maid  of  Perth;  or,  St.  Valentine's 
Day 

A  tale  of  Scotland  in  the  year  1402,  when  feuds  and 
clannish  strife  were  rampant. 

The  Heart  of  Midlothian 

A  story  of  Edinburgh  in  the  early  eighteenth  century. 
English  royalty  is  introduced  through  the  journey  to 
London  of  Jeanie  Deans,  Scott's  noblest  heroine;  the 
common  folk  of  Scotland  have  much  place  in  the  story. 


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Kenilworth 

One  of  the  most  delightful  historical  romances  in 
English,  presenting  the  court  group  of  Queen  Elizabeth. 
Burleigh,  Edmund  Spenser,  and  Sir  Walter  Kaleigh  are 
actors  in  the  elaborate  narrative  detailing  the  fall  of  the 
Earl  of  Leicester  from  royal  favor. 

SPEARMAN,  FRANK  H. 
Held  for  Orders 

Stories  of  American  railroad  life  that  have  the  lure 
of  the  rails  in  them. 

Whispering  Smith 

A  story  of  the  old  West,  having  the  invigorating  spirit 
of  out-door  living  under  the  practical  though  ill-regu- 
lated law  of  the  six-shooter. 

STEVENSON,  ROBERT  Louis 

Kidnapped 

An  adventure  tale  of  eighteenth-century  Scotland, 
relating  th£  stirring  experience  of  David  Balfour  and 
Alan  Breck  amid  the  Highland  clans.  Its  sequel,  David 
Balfour,  shows  the  disturbed  condition  of  society  fol- 
lowing the  failure  of  the  last  Jacobite  Rebellion  and 
contains  also  Stevenson's  best  characterization  of  a 
woman. 

STOWE,  HARRIET  BEECHER 

Uncle  Tom's  Cablu 

One  of  the  world's  greatest  purpose  novels,  instantly 
successful  in  its  end  of  making  Christian  humanity  re- 
alize the  sin  of  legalized  slavery. 

TARKINGTON,  BOOTH 

Monsieur  Beaucaire  . 
The  scene  is  Bath  in  the  day  of  Beau  Nash  and  other 


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historical  fashionables.  The  story  of  a  French  barber, 
who  falls  in  love  with  an  aristocratic  Englishwoman,  is 
handled  with  the  delicacy  of  high  comedy. 

The  Gentleman  from  Indiana 

A  newspaper  man  makes  war  on  a  crowd  of  political 
scoundrels.  The  story  shows  various  phases  of  present 
American  life. 

WALLACE,  LEWIS 

Ben  Hur;  A  Tale  of  the  Christ 
The  title  gives  the  key  to  the  setting  of  this  famous 
story.     The  plot  concerns  the  experiences  of  a  young- 
Jew  who  is  made  a  galley  slave  by  his  Roman  captors. 

WEBSTER,  HENRY  KITCHELL 
An  American  Family 

A  novel  of  prosperous,  present-day  Chicago  that  tries 
to  show  American  traits  through  members  of  a  family 
group.  Fairly  successful  in  its  purpose;  a  readable 
story. 

WESTCOTT,  EDWARD  NOTES 

David  Harum:  A  Story  of  American  Life 
An  apt  presentation  of  Yankee  traits  in  story  form. 
Though  often  lacking  in  style,  on  account  of  its  local 
color  the  book  deserves  more  enduring  popularity  than 
has  followed  its  unusual  welcome. 

WEYMAN,  STANLEY  JOHN 

A  Gentleman  of  France 

A  fine  historical  novel,  remarkably  accurate  and  at- 
tractive in  selected  details.  The  hero  is  a  veteran  of  the 
Huguenot  wars  who  wins  the  love  of  a  noble  lady  by  his 
valiant  conduct. 


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WHITE,  STEWART  EDWARD 

The  Blazed  Trail 

A  story  of  the  Michigan  lumber  camps  during  the 
last  generation.  It  has  merit  as  local  history  and  as  a 
tale  of  adventure. 

The  Riverman 

A  story  of  American  outdoor  life,  showing  one  of  the 
most  romantic  minglings  of  commerce  and  adventure. 

WILKINS,  MARY  E. 

The  Adventures  of  Ann 

Story  of  a  New  England  girl  who  was  '  *  bound  out ' '  to 
service. 


Drama 

GOLDSMITH,  OLIVER 

She  Stoops  to  Conquer 

Comical  situations  caused  by  mistakes  in  identity, 
presumably  a  growth  from  an  incident  in  Goldsmith's 
life.  Homely  language  and  rustic  characters  are  re- 
freshing satires  upon  the  affectations  of  earlier  come- 
dies of  the  18th  century. 

LAMB,  CHARLES  AND  MARY 
Tales  from  Shakspere 

The  most  enjoyable  aid  to  a  reading  of  Shakspere 's 
plays  and  more  useful  than  any  other  book  to  those  who 
at  first  find  his  language  too  difficult. 

SHAKSPERE,  WILLIAM 

Henry  IV:  Parts  I  and  II 
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Falstaff  and  his  comrades,  also  for  their  pictures  of  his- 
toric personages  and  events. 

Julius  Caesar 

A  soldierly  story  of  Rome  in  the  days  when  Caesar 
and  Brutus  were  dominating  figures. 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream 

A  romantic  play  of  pure  poetic  beauty.  Its  country 
clowns,  fairies,  and  lovers  mingle  during  moonlight 
merrymaking  in  the  woodland  groves. 

Romeo  and  Juliet 

A  tragedy  of  unhappy  passion.  Its  songs  and  speeches 
have  the  full  romantic  spirit  of  youth. 

The  Tempest 

A  romantic  drama  drawing  the  reader  far  from  reality 
into  the  realm  of  fairy  enchantment,  where  the  gross 
animalism  of  a  Caliban  makes  Ariel  the  more  ethereal. 

Travel 

BOOY,  T.  H.  N. 

The  Virgin  Islands 

A  well-illustrated  account  of  the  resources  and  beauty 
of  our  new  possessions. 

DAVIS,  RICHARD  HARDING 

Three   Gringoes   in   Venezuela  and   Central 
America 

DELAND,  MARGARET 
Florida  Days 

Popular  sketches  of  St.  Augustine  and  other  historic 
places  visited  by  the  Spaniards. 


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FRANCK,  H.  A. 

Vagabonding  Down  the  Andes 
Zone  Policeman  88 

"A  close-range  study  of  the  Panama  Canal  and  its 
workers"  is  the  sub-title.  These  chapters  take  the  reader 
straight  to  the  heart  of  life  in  the  zone. 

JOHNSON,  CLIFTON 

Highways  and  Byways  of  the  South 
This  writer  has  produced  several  other  books  on  Amer- 
ican scenes,  among  them  being  a  most  interesting  volume 
on  New  England. 

LUMMIS,  CHARLES  F. 

Some  Strange  Corners  of  Our  Own  Country 
A  Tramp  Across  the  Continent 

MUIR,  JOHN 

Steep  Trails 
Outdoors  up  and  down  the  Pacific  Coast. 

REED,  EARL  H. 

The  Dune  Country 

Fine  sketches  of  Lake  Michigan  coasts  with  enter- 
taining characterization  of  local  types. 

RlESENBERG,    FELIX 

Under  Sail 

The  log  of  a  sailing  vessel  from  New  York  to  Honolulu 
and  back  home. 

SLOCUM,  J. 

Sailing  Alone  Around  the  World 
Not  a  work  of  literary  charm,  but  having  the  record  of 
an  unusual  voyage  in  a  sailing  sloop. 


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SMITH,  F.  HOPKINSON 

A  White  Umbrella  in  Mexico 
Illustrated  narrative  of  street  scenes. 

STANLEY,  HENRY  M. 

Through  the  Dark  Continent 

STREET,  JULIAN 

Abroad  at  Home 
American  ramblings,  observations,  and  adventures. 

American  Adventures 
A  second  trip  " Abroad  at  Home." 

STUCK,  HUDSON 

Ten  Thousand  Miles  with  a  Dog  Sled 
Journeys  in  Alaska. 

TURLEY,  CHARLES 

The  Voyages  of  Captain  Scott;  retold  from 
"The  Voyage  of  the  Discovery"  and 
"Scott's  Last  Expedition" 

No  explorer  has  left  more  distinct  record  of  his  hero- 
ism than  did  Captain  Scott  in  his  final  venture  into  the 
Antarctic. 

Miscellaneous 
Guides  to  Self  Improvement 

BRIGGS,  LE  BARON  E. 
Routine  and  Ideals 
Girls  and  Education 
School,  College  and  Character 
Three  books  of  good  counsel  cheerfully  and  sanely 


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given  regarding  education  and  self  improvement.  The 
first  is  for  all  young  readers,  the  second  for  girls,  and 
the  last  for  boys  about  to  quit  preparatory  school. 

CONWAY,  E.  A.  AND  SlB  W.  M. 

The  Book  of  Art  for  Young  People 

HERSEY,  HELOISE  E. 

To  Girls 
A  book  full  of  common-sense 'advice. 

HYDE,  W.  DE  WITT 

The  College  Man  and  the  College  Woman 

LOWRY,  DR.  E.  B. 

Preparing  for  Womanhood 

PALMER,  GEORGE  HERBERT 

Self  Cultivation  in  English 
An  essay  of  great  value  in  school  and  out. 

SLOSSON,  E.  E. 

Great  American  Universities 
Descriptions  of  several  of  our  best-known  universities. 

WILSON,  C.  D. 

Working  One's   Way  Through  College   and 

University 

Gives  comparative  costs  at  various  institutions  on  the 
basis  of  data  collected  in  1912,  also  an  account  of  ways 
to  earn  money  while  in  college. 

WRIGHT,  HENRY  PARKS 

From  School  Through  College 


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ALLEN,  FREDERICK  J. 

Business  Employments 

For  boys  and  their  parents. 

A  vocational  expert  analyzes  the  business  of  manufac- 
turing shoes,  the  trade  of  a  department  store,  and  the 
financing  of  a  bank ;  he  thus  shows  what  will  be  the  prob- 
able future  of  a  choice  from  one  of  the  three  great 
branches  of  trade. 

BEVERIDGE,  ALBERT  J. 

The  Young  Man  and  the  World 

COLLINS,  ARCHIE  D. 

Money  Making  for  Boys 
Practical  advice  on  spare-time  employments. 

CON  WELL,  RUSSELL  H. 

Observation:    Every    M an    His    Own    Uni- 
versity 

What  You  Can  Do  with  Your  Will  Power 
Good  counsel  on  self  improvement. 

DAVIS,  JESSE  B. 

Vocational  and  Moral  Guidance 
Contains  excellent  advice  regarding  choice  of  a  pro- 
fession in  life. 

FOWLER,  N.  C. 

Beginning  Right:  Row  to  Succeed 
Brief,  practical  sketches  011  choosing  a  lifework;  in- 
tended particularly  for  boys  and  girls  of  high  school  age. 

MANSON,  GEORGE  L. 

Ready  for  Business;  or  Choosing  an  Occu- 
pation 


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MARDEN,  ORISON  S. 
Choosing  a  Career 

Though  published  fourteen  years  ago,  the  essays  herein 
are  still  standard  estimates  of  various  professions  and 
vocations ;  of  interest  to  both  sexes. 

ROBERT,  HENRY  M. 

Pocket  Manual  of  Rules  of  Order  for  Delib- 
erative Assemblies 

The  rules  of  conducting  a  business  meeting  should 
be  known  to  every  educated  citizen. 

SCHWAB,  CHARLES  M. 

Succeeding  With  What  You  Have 

Practical  Handbooks 

BERNOTTI,  ROMEO 

The  Fundamentals  of  Naval  Tactics 
Translated  from  Italian  by  H.  P.  Mclntosh  for  use  in 
our  Annapolis  academy. 

BISHOP,  FARNHAM 

The  Story  of  the  Submarine 

A  history  of  the  under-water  crafts  devised  by  various 
inventors  up  to  the  opening  of  the  World  War. 

BOND,  A.  R. 

The  American  Boys'  Engineering  Book 
All  sorts  of  information  regarding  indoor  and  outdoor 
mechanics,  with  full  explanation  of  simple  engineering 
feats. 


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CALDWELL,  0.  W.  AND  EIKENBERRY,  W.  L. 

Elements  of  General  Science 
A  textbook  full  of  old  and  new  facts  regarding  the 
sciences.      It    contains    the    information    that    everyone 
should  possess.    Well  illustrated  and  new. 

DUNCAN,  EGBERT  K. 

Some  Chemical  Problems  of  Today 

GIBSON,  C.  E. 

War  Inventions   and  How   They   Were  In- 
vented 

Published  in  1917 ;  for  younger  boys  and  girls,  but  in 
form  attractive  to  others. 

GRAHAM-WHITE,  C. 
Learning  to  Fly 

MACLEOD,  ALICE 

Pigeon  Raising 
A  brief  explanation  of  how  to  begin  the  industry. 

MORGAN,  A.  P. 

Wireless  Telegraphy  and  Telephony  Simply 

Explained 
Clear  exposition  of  the  use  of  modern  apparatus. 

SIMMONDS,  E. 

All  About  Aircraft 

VERRILL,  A.  H. 

Book  of  the  Motor  Boat 
The  Amateur  Carpenter 

WEICK,  C. 

Elementary  Mechanical  Drawing 


GROUP  IV 

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GROUP  IV 

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EDUCATION 

Those  readers  disposed  to  drop  all  but  maga- 
zines and  weekly  journals  as  business  becomes 
interesting,  are  asked  to  consider  the  words  of  a 
great  English  scientist  on  this  matter.  In  dis- 
cussing his  own  case,  Charles  Darwin  said  late 
in  life  regarding  his  youth:  "With  respect  to 
diversified  tastes  independent  of  science,  I  was 
fond  of  reading  various  books,  and  I  used  to  sit 
for  hours  reading  the  historical  plays  of  Shaks- 
pere,  generally  in  an  old  window  in  the  thick 
walls  of  the  school.  I  read  also  other  poetry,  such 
as  Thomson's  Seasons^-and  the  recently  published 
poems  of  Byron  and  Scott.  I  mention  this  be- 
cause later  in  life  I  wholly  lost,  to  my  great 
regret,  all  pleasure  from  poetry  of  any  kind, 
including  Shakspere.  ...  I  have  tried  lately  to 
read  Shakspere  and  found  it  so  intolerably  dull 
that  it  nauseated  me.  I  have  also  almost  lost  my 
taste  for  pictures  and  music.  Music  generally 
sets  me  to  thinking  energetically  on  what  I  have 
been  at  work  on,  instead  of  giving  me  pleasure. . . 

"If  I  had  my  life  to  live  again,  I  would  make 

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a  rule  to  read  some  poetry  and  to  listen  to  some 
music  at  least  once  every  week,  for  perhaps  the 
parts  of  my  brain  now  atrophied  would  thus  have 
been  kept  active  through  use.  The  loss  of  these 
tastes  is  a  loss  of  happiness  and  may  possibly  be 
injurious  to  the  intellect,  and  more  probably  to 
the  moral  character,  by  enfeebling  the  emotional 
part  of  our  nature. ' ' 

Biography 

ALLEN,  A.  V.  G. 

Life  of  Phillips  Brooks 

BACON,  EDGAK  M. 

Henry  Hudson,  His  Times  and  His  Voyages 
Accounts  of  the  f oiar  voyages  Hudson  made  over  three 
hundred  years  ago.     The  early  history  of  New  York 
State  is  part  of  this  record. 

BAKKIE,  SIR  JAMES 

Margaret  Ogilvy 

A  picture  of  the  author's  mother  during  the  days  of 
his  youthful  striving.  Only  a  most  sensitive  spirit 
could  have  conceived  such  a  book  and  only  a  most  noble 
could  have  inspired  it. 

COHEN,  ROSE 

Out  of  the  Shadow 

The  "  shadow "  of  this  autobiography  lay  in  our  own 
country,  whither  this  Kussian  girl  and  her  parents  came 
seeking  freedom.  The  book  is  indirectly  a  moving  appeal 
for  care  of  our  immigrants. 


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DYER,  F.  L.  AND  MARTIN,  T.  C. 

Edison :  His  Life  and  Inventions 
A  full  and  authoritative  account. 

FORBES,  B.  C. 

Men  Who  Are  Making  America 

HAPGOOD,  NORMAN 

Abraham  Lincoln,  the  Man  of  the  People 

HIGGINSON,  THOMAS  WENTWORTH 
Part  of  a  Man's  Life 

Partly  autobiographical,  partly  discursive  commen- 
taries on  Civil  War  Reconstruction  Days  and  on  notable 
persons  of  that  period. 

KAHN,  ALEXANDER 

Life  of  General  Joffre 

LOCKHART,  JOHN  (jr. 

Life  of  Sir  Walter  Scott 

The  standard  life  of  Scott,  written  with  the  under- 
standing and  sympathy  possible  to  none  but  a  member 
of  the  subject's  family. 

Low,  A.  M. 

Woodroio  Wilson 

MARSHALL,  JOHN 

The  Life  of  Washington 
A  standard  American  biography. 


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MORLEY,  VISCOUNT  JOHN 
BurJce 

One  of  the  finest  English  biographies.  The  author 
has  unusual  gifts  in  handling  political  materials  and 
herein  had  a  subject  entirely  pleasing  to  his  tastes. 

The  Life  of  William  Ewart  Gladstone 
Like  Morley's  Burke,  this  study  reaches  into  the  inner 
motives  of  the  subject  and  relates  them  to  the  events  of 
his  generation. 

Recollections 

This  autobiography  of  a  great  English  statesman  gives 
an  intimate  view  of  men  and  events  during  the  last 
generation.  The  account  is  carried  through  1910. 

OLIPHANT,  MARGARET 

Autobiography  and  Letters 

A  British  novelist  writing  somewhat  after  the  style 
of  George  Eliot.  Her  letters  and  memoirs  give  a  somber 
but  elevating  account  of  her  domestic  anxieties  through- 
out a  lifetime  of  literary  endeavor. 

PALMER,  GEORGE  HERBERT 
.    The  Life  of  Alice  Freeman  Palmer 

A  biography  that  unites  the  reality  of  intimate  knowl- 
edge with  a  fine  sense  of  the  lessons  to  be  drawn  from 
a  life  of  service. 

PARKER,  CORNELIA  S. 

An  American  Idyll :  The  Life  of  Carleton  H. 

Par  Jeer 

This  biography  takes  rank  with  the  best  intimate  biog- 
raphies in  literature.  The  author  has  told  a  story  of 
intellectual  achievement  and  social  service  under  pres- 


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ent  conditions  in  America.  She  herself  was  sharer  of 
its  charming  love  story. 

ROOSEVELT,  THEODORE 

Autobiography 

Nothing  written  by  others  matches  this  frank  story 
of  Roosevelt's  full-rounded  life. 

ROTHSCHILD,  ALONZO 

Lincoln,  Master  of  Men 

Selected  from  the  many  lives  of  Lincoln  for  its  union 
of  authentic  information  and  good  anecdotes. 

SHAW,  ANNA  H. 

The  Story  of  a  Pioneer 

Autobiography   of    an    influential    publicist   and    re- 
former. 


Fiction 

Aixs WORTH,  WILLIAM  H. 
The  Tower  of  London 

The  author  succeeded  in  his  plan  "to  contrive  such  a 
series  of  incidents  as  should  naturally  introduce  every 
relic  of  the  old  pile — its  towers,  chapels,  halls,  chambers, 
gateways,  arches,  and  drawbridges — so  that  no  part  of  it 
shall  remain  unillustrated. " 

ALLEN,  JAMES  LANE 

The  Choir  Invisible 

A  novel  dealing  with  the  genuine  love  of  two  high- 
minded  persons  separated  from  one  another  by  marriage. 
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are  both  subordinate  to  the  emotional  descriptions  of 
natural  scenes. 

AUSTEN,  JANE 

Pride  and  Prejudice 

The  story  of  "a  girl  rising  through  sweetness  and 
good  sense  above  a  mother  of  humiliating  vulgarity. ' ' 

BALZAC,  HONORE  DE 

Old  Goriot 

A  view  of  the  Parisian  underworld,  with  much  fine 
insight  into  human  nature.  Through  the  drawing  of 
the  title  character  Balzac  shows  the  extravagance  of 
complete  paternal  sacrifice  after  the  manner  of  Shaks- 
pere's  Lear. 

The  Rise  and  Fall  of  Cesar  Birotteau 

The  commercial  and  social  ventures  of  a  Parisian 
perfumer  who  at  last  becomes  a  bankrupt.  In  depiction 
of  a  social  class  the  novel  well  illustrates  the  expansive 
plan  of  Balzac  to  characterize  minutely  all  types  of 
mankind  in  successive  novels.  v 

BARRIE,  SIR  JAMES 

A  Window  in  Thrums 

The  sequel  to  his  Auld  Licht  Idylls;  more  representa- 
tive of  village  life  in  Scotland  because  it  shows  the 
pathetic  side  0f  humble  living  as  well  as  the  humorous. 
The  noble  devotion  of  Scottish  folk  to  their  ideas  of  duty 
and  piety  has  place  with  their  odd  whimsies  and  super- 
stitions. 

BENNETT,  ARNOLD 
Buried  Alive 
A  tour  dc  force,  highly  ingenious  in  plot. 


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BRONSON-HOWARD,  GEORGE  P. 

The  Country  Road 

Thirteen  stories  of  idealism  and  fancy,  revealing  the 
lights  and  shadows  of  New  England  family  life. 

BRONTE,  CHARLOTTE 

Jane  Eyre 

Historically  important  for  creating  a  heroine  who  at- 
tracts through  intellectual  power  and  intensity  of  feel- 
inn.  Partly  autobiographical. 

BROWN,  ALICE 

Country  Neighbors 

Stories  of  rural  life  revealing  the  fine  qualities  of 
humble  natures. 

BUNNER,  H.  C. 

Love  in  Old  Clothes,  and  Other  Stories 

Short  Sixes 

More  Short  Sixes 

Three  volumes  of  American  stories,  chiefly  on  urban 
life,  remarkable  for  humor  and  for  understanding  of 
human  nature. 

CHESTERTON,  GILBERT  K. 

The  Wisdom  of  Father  Brown 
Detective  stories  with  an  unusual  hero. 

CONRAD,  JOSEPH  (JOSEPH  CONRAD  KORZENIOWSKI) 

Lord  Jim 

A  gripping  tale  of  sea  adventure  with  a  hero  whose 
introspective  struggles  and  final  victory  over  self  become 
the  reader's  own.  The  author's  favorite  storv. 


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Victory 

The  final  stand  of  a  beaten  man  against  brute  force 
and  animal-like  craft,  with  a  gorgeous  background  in 
the  lonely  islands  of  the  South  Seas. 

CRANE,  STEPHEN 

The  Red  Badge  of  Courage 

Excellent  portrayal  of  a  soldier's  innermost  thoughts 
in  his  hour  of  danger.  The  Civil  War  and  particularly 
the  battle  of  Chancellorsville  form  the  setting,  but  this 
rapid,  impressionistic  sketch  is  concerned  with  personal, 
not  historical,  matters.  There  are  many  remarkable 
passages  of  sense  description. 

DICKENS,  CHARLES 

Martin  Cliuzzlewit 

One  of  his  most  representative  books,  uniting  the 
qualities  of  Dickens'  style  in  pleasing  manner.  Most  of 
the  characters — Sarah  Gamp,  Pecksniff,  Tom  Pinch, 
and  the  others — are  subjects  of  common  reference.  As 
contrast  to  the  amusing  caricature  of  American  life  in 
1842,  read  the  travel  record  of  Sir  Charles  Lyell. 

ELIOT,  GEORGE  (MARY  ANNE  EVANS) 

Adam  Bede 

A  study  of  the  far-reaching  consequences  of  a  mo- 
mentary surrender  to  passion.  The  English  country 
setting  gives  place  for  sympathetic  descriptions  of  Mid- 
land customs  and  superstitions  that  afford  relief  from 
the  searching  analysis  of  human  nature. 

GALSWORTHY,  JOHN 

Fraternity 

A  novel  having  much  of  essay  style.  Its  characters, 
taken  from  diverse  levels  of  London  life,  demonstrate  in 


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action  the  fruitlessness  of  much  present-day  socialism 
and  show  how  wide  may  be  the  consequences  of  slight 
changes  in  the  social  order. 

The  Patrician 

A  finely  conceived  novel  presenting  varied  characters 
of  distinctive  sort  and  detailed  pictures  of  English 
society.  Though  the  hero  has  elaborate  schemes  of  gov- 
ernmental reform,  his  love  affairs  have  sufficient  place 
in  the  story  to  keep  it  from  becoming  a  purpose  novel 
to  the  degree  found  in  The  Man  of  Property  or  The 
Freelands. 

GARLAND,  HAMLIN 

Main  Travelled  Roads:  Six  Stories  of  the 

Mississippi  Valley 

These  stories  of  rural  living  in  the  Middle  West  would 
rank  as  distinguished  naturalistic  fiction  under  the 
French  definition.  The  cheerless  realities  are  depicted 
relentlessly  and  without  artificial  reliefs. 

HAGGARD,  SIR  H.  RIDER 

King  Solomon's  Mines 

Boldly  imaginative  picture  of  an  adventurous  search 
in  Central  Africa  for  the  lost  mines.  Haggard's  stories 
are  all  the  work  of  a  far-reaching  imagination. 

HARDY,  THOMAS 

The  Return  of  the  Native 

A  novel  of  nature,  human  and  physical,  wherein  the 
grimness  of  Egdon  Heath  personifies  Hardy's  philosophy 
of  fate.    Rich  in  characterization  and  in  description. 
Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles;  a  Pure  Woman 

Faithfully  Presented 
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innocent  girl  may  suffer  misfortune  through  the  inevit- 
able operations  of  chance. 

HAETE,  FRANCIS  BRET 

The  Luck  of  Roaring  Camp,  and  Other 

Sketches 

Stories  of  life  in  California  during  the  romantic  days 
of  gold  seeking  which  are  raised  to  high  levels  of  liter- 
ary art  by  a  blending  of  rough  reality  and  chivalric 
gallantry. 

HAWTHORNE,  NATHANIEL 

Twice  Told  Tales 

A  mingling  of  purely  fanciful  sketches  and  traditional 
tales  of  pre-Revolutionary  days.  Characteristic  of  Haw- 
thorne in  mystical  and  allegorical  materials. 

The  Scarlet  Letter 

A  tragic  story  of  remorse  for  sin  committed  under  the 
stern  moral  code  of  Puritanism.  Artistically  a  master- 
piece; remarkable  for  psychological  analysis  of  minds 
burdened  with  guilt  and  for  its  imaginative  elevation. 

The  House  of  Seven  Gables 

Less  uncompromisingly  stern  than  the  preceding  book, 
more  lively,  and  yet  concerned  with  Hawthorne 's  old 
theme — the  far-reaching  consequences  of  sin.  Characters 
of  quaint  attractiveness. 

HENRY,  0.  (Sidney  Porter) 

Heart  of  the  West 

Cabbage  and  Kings 

Whirligigs 

These  three  volumes  of  short  stories  illustrate  O. 
Henry's  variety  of  subject  matter.  All  his  stories  are 


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marvels  of  conciseness  and  color,  with  unique  plots  and 
in  language  that  is  most  graphic  even  though  smart  and 
slangy. 

HEBGESHEIMER,  JOSEPH 

Java  Head 

A  tale  of  old  Salem  that  pictures  its  odd  provincial- 
isms through  the  eyes  of  a  Manchu  lady.  The  feeling 
for  sea  life  is  such  as  Conrad  has  made  familiar. 

HOWELLS,  WILLIAM  DEAN 

The  Rise  of  Silas  Lapham 

Through  the  story  of  how  an  uncultivated  but  manly 
New  Englander  developed  under  stress  of  trouble 
Howells  shows  many  provincial  traits  of  Boston  society. 

HUGO,  VICTOR 

Toilers  of  the  Sea 

A  poetic  picturing  of  man's  unending  struggle  against 
the  power  of  the  sea  that  reaches  its  climax  in  the  en- 
thralling scene  of  Gilliat's  combat  with  the  waves. 

JEWETT,  SARAH  ORNE 

Deephaven 

A  pleasing  view  of  a  New  England  seaport  village, 
written  in  the  manner  of  Mrs.  Gaskell's  Cranford.  Two 
good-natured  girls  on  a  holiday  jaunt  bring  out  the 
quaintness  of  its  life  by  observations  on  the  inhabitants 
and  their  customs. 

KINGSLEY,  CHARLES 

Hypatia :  or,  New  Foes  With  an  Old  Face 
A  story  of  declining  Greek  influence  during  the  strug- 
gle between  Christianity  and  paganism.  Full  of  dramatic 
situations  and  action. 


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Westward  Ho! 

A  patriotic  story  of  naval  adventure  in  the  days  of 
Queen  Elizabeth;  its  moral  is  the  merit  of  earnest  en- 
deavor. 

KIPLING,  EUDYAKD 

The  Light  That  Failed 

No  reader  will  wonder  over  the  fact  that  theatrical 
presentation  of  this  story  has  kept  alive  the  "happy- 
ending"  version;  yet  all  will  prefer  reading  through  to 
Kipling's  dramatic  picture  of  Torpenhow's  fate. 

LOCKE,  WILLIAM  J. 

The  Beloved  Vagabond 

The  career  of  this  fascinating  ne'er-do-well  gives  a 
story  that  displays  the  author's  ability  in  handling  old 
materials  in  fresh  style. 

MORRISON,  ARTHUR 

Tales  of  Mean  Streets 

Short  stories  of  bare  reality  regarding  those  who  live 
in  the  East  End  of  London. 

POE,  EDGAR  ALLAN 
Short  Stories 

Tales  of  mystery  and  horror,  some  falling  to  decadent 
levels  and  others  rising  to  perfection  of  tone  and  struc- 
ture. Many  collections  of  Poe's  stories  have  been  pub- 
lished under  varying  titles,  some  with  fine  critical 
prefaces. 

READE,  CHARLES 

The  Cloister  and  the  Hearth 
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piece  of  fiction.  Its  incidents  display  the  state  of  Euro- 
pen  u  society  in  the  Middle  Ages,  the  hero  being  drawn 
I  nun  the  life  story  of  Erasmus'  father. 

Peg  Woofington 

A  romantic  story  of  stage  life  having  many  character- 
istics of  Dickens'  novels.  This  is  Reade's  most  popular 
book. 

SMITH,  F.  HOPKINSON 

Caleb  West,  Master  Diver 

In  this  account  of  the  fight  against  brute  nature  en- 
dured by  the  mariners  of  our  North  Atlantic  coast,  the 
author  gives  fact  from  his  varied  experiences  in  build- 
ing coast  lighthouses. 

STEVENSON,  EOBERT  Louis 

The  Merry  Men;  and  Other  Tales  and  Fables 
A  group  of  excellent  short-stories.    The  title  piece  is 
a  weird  tale  of  sunken  treasure  and  a  lonely  isle  off 
the  Scottish  coast.    Other  noteworthy  stories  in  the  vol- 
ume are  Markheim  and  Will  o'  the  Mill. 

The  Strange  Case  of  Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde 

A  character  study  having  all  the  mystification  of  a 
detective  story. 

THACKERAY,  WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE 

The  History  of  Pendennis:  His  Fortunes  and 
Misfortunes,  His  Friends  and  His  Greatest 
Enemy. 

Interest  is  divided  between  the  hero,  who  has  much 
of  Thackeray's  own  life  story,  and  the  uncle.  The  book 
pictures  the  career  of  an  English  youth  during  the  free 
years  just  before  his  turning  to  serious  affairs. 


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Vanity  Fair;  or,  A  Novel  Without  a  Hero 

A  chronicle  in  the  length  of  time  elapsing,  in  its  early 
nineteenth-century  setting  an  historical  novel,  and 
through  its  characters  an  exposition  of  worldly  ambi- 
tions. Though  "a  novel  without  a  hero,"  its  characters 
are  among  the  most  familiar  in  English  fiction. 

TURGENEV,  IVAN 

Fathers  and  Children 

A  fruitful  contrast  of  the  old  and  new  orders  in  Rus- 
sian society  in  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century. 
Bazarov  is  a  powerful  figure  embodying  Turgenev's  un- 
sjrmpathetic  attitude  toward  nihilism.  Virgin  Soil  is  a 
later  treatment  of  the  problems  that  faced  youthful  en- 
thusiasts striving  ineffectively  to  become  active  revolu- 
tionists at  that  time. 

WISTER,  OWEN 

Philosophy  Four 

A  brief  tale  of  gay  college  days,  as  they  exist  chiefly 
in  fiction  but  none  the  less  entertaining. 

The  Virginian,  a  Horseman  of  the  Plains 
A  story  of  Wyoming  life  from  1874  to  1890,  of  the 
horseman  whom  "you  will  no  more  see  ...  gallop 
out  of  the  unchanging  silence  than  you  will  see  Co- 
lumbus on  the  unchanging  sea  come  sailing  from  Palos 
with  his  caravels. ' '  For  fine  detail  this  novel  ranks  among 
our  best  local  color  stories. 

Drama 

GALSWORTHY,  JOHN 

Strife 

A  drama  posing  the  question  of  properly  coordinating 
Capital  and  Labor.  Strongly  realistic  views  of  a  work- 


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iiinman  s  home  during  a  strike  period  and  of  the  mental 
agonies  of  his  employer;  these  are  partially  interpreted 
through  an  unsavory  picture  of  the  walking  delegate. 
Justice,  The  Pigeon,  and  The  Silver  Box  have  similar 
substance. 

GREGORY,  LADY  AUGUSTA 

The  Rising  of  the  Moon 

A  brief  comedy  showing  the  traits  of  the  Irishman  and 
also  his  deep-seated  trust  in  the  coming  of  the  day  *  '  when 
the  small  rise  up  and  the  big  fall  down."  Represents 
one  phase  of  the  dramatic  revival  in  Ireland. 

MOODY,  WILLIAM  VAUGHAN 

The  Great  Divide 

An  American  play  uniting  sketches  of  Western  and 
Eastern  life.  It  has  the  distinction  of  being  highly  suc- 
cessful on  the  stage  and  likewise  in  printed  form. 

SHAKSPERE,  WILLIAM 

As  You  Like  It 

A  comedy  of  happy  love  and  wooing  amid  woodland 
scenes,  having  many  wise  saws  and  proverbs  mingled 
with  its  romantic  speeches. 

Hamlet 

The  tragedy  above  all  other  tragedies  of  modern 
literature.  The  character  of  Hamlet  is  as  actual  as  of 
any  man  living  or  dead,  of  wondrous  complexity,  and 
most  remarkable  for  its  show  of  Shakspere's  genius. 

King  Lear 

The  most  marvelous  of  the  tragedies  for  weight  of 
thought  added  to  wealth  of  imagery.  Its  story  of  wilful 
old  age  and  filial  ingratitude  symbolizes  an  unchanging 
circumstance  of  human  existence. 


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Macbeth 

The  tragedy  of  evil  ambition  in  man  and  woman,  oi' 
the  far-reaching  consequences  of  evil  once  entered  into 
as  a  way  to  power. 

Othello 

A  swiftly  moving  tragedy  of  love  and  jealousy,  with 
inhuman  intriguing  as  its  spring  of  action  and  marked 
by  an  infinitely  pathetic  ending. 

SHERIDAN,  RICHARD  BRIXSLEY 

The  School  for  Scandal 

A  brilliant  high  comedy,  famous  for  its  witty  repartee 
and  gracevS  of  phrase. 

The  Rival* 

More  lively  than  its  famous  successor,  and  equally 
striking-  in  originality  of  characterization. 

SYNGE,  JOHN 

The  Riders  to  the  Sea 

Tragically  beautiful  scenes  of  the  Irish  coast  folk  who 
suffer  under  the  rule  of  the  sea.  A  play  of  great  poetic 

power. 

THOMAS,  AUGUSTUS  M. 
The  Wit  chin  r/  Hour 


Essays  and  Letters 

ARNOLD,  MATTHEW 

Essays  in  Criticism:  First  Series 
The  foremost  English  critic  of  the  nineteenth  century 
established  the  rank  of  many  writers  through  opinions 


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expressed  in  these  essays.     Historically  important  and 
valuable  for  the  critical  tests  suggested. 

BACON,  FRANCIS 
Essays 

As  practical  in  their  advice  as  Franklin's  Poor  Rich- 
ard and  famous  for  compact  elegance  of  style. 

BISHOP,  JOSEPH  B.  (editor) 

Theodore  Roosevelt's  Letters  to  His  Children 

"This  book,  apparently  for  children,  will  find  in  the 
soul  of  every  man  a  spot  tender  according  to  the  degree 
of  sympathy  with  which  he  can  envisage  a  great  man's 
greater  goodness  and  simplicity  of  heart." 

BURKE,  EDMUND 

Reflections  on  the  Revolution  in  France 

A  lucid  and  powerful  analysis  of  the  evils  of  the 
French  Revolution  by  one  of  England's  greatest  political 
philosophers. 

CARLYLE,  THOMAS 

On  Heroes,  Hero-Worship,  and  the  Heroic  in 
History 

These  sketches  of  dominating  figures  illustrate  Car- 
lyle's  doctrine  that  "the  history  of  the  world  is  the 
biography  of  great  men." 

Sartor  Resartus 

"The  tailor  reclothed"  notion  conveys  Carlyle's  orig- 
inal philosophy  of  life.  "The  Everlasting  No"  and  "The 
Everlasting  Yes ' '  are  chapters  depicting  his  own  growth 
from  doubt  to  spiritual  trust;  they  contain  the  great 
message  of  Carlyle  for  his  generation. 


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COWPER,  WILLIAM 

Letters 

Cordial  and  gracious  correspondence  regarding  the 
experiences  of  life  in  various  English  towns  during  the 
eighteenth  century,  with  valuable  opinions  on  matters  of 
literary  importance. 

EMERSON,  EALPH  WALDO 

Essays:  First  and  Second  Series 
Remarkable  as  clear,  well-fashioned  pieces  of  prose  and 
highly  prized  for  their  presentation  of  human  nature  at 
its  noblest  and  best. 

HAZLITT,  WILLIAM 

The  Spirit   of  the  Age;   or,  Contemporary 

Portraits 

Published  in  1825,  when  England  possessed  a  splendid 
group  deserving  such  glowing  characterization.  This 
ranks  high  among  books  opening  the  way  to  a  personal 
appreciation  of  literature. 

Table  Talk 

To  be  read,  if  for  no  other  reason,  because  of  the  re- 
freshing literary  commentary  "On  Persons  One  Would 
Wish  to  Have  Seen." 

IRVING,  WASHINGTON 

The  Alhambra 

Spanish  legends  fitted  together  and  overlaid  with  splen- 
did description,  mingled  with  purely  fanciful  sketches 
completing  the  re-creation  of  Moorish  civilization  in 
Spain. 

LOWELL,  JAMES  RUSSELL 

Among  My  Boohs 
Commentaries  on  earlier  writers  as  enjoyable  as  Haz- 


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Mil's    and    marked    by    modern    standards    of    critical 
writing. 

My  Study  Windows 

Other  essays  on  men  of  letters  and  some  on  topics 
giving  place  to  Lowell's  keen  humor  and  exuberance. 

McARTHUR,  PETER 

The  Red  Cote  and  Her  Friends 
A  group  of  new  essays  on  the  delights  of  country  life. 

STEVENSON,  ROBERT  Louis 

Across  the  Plains 

These  sketches  and  The  Amateur  Emigrant  show  the 
conditions  of  a  trans-continental  journey  a  generation 
ago.  They  also  cover  an  eventful  part  of  Stevenson's 
life. 

Familiar  Studies  of  Men  and  Books 
The  sort  of  unprofessional  literary  criticism  that  en- 
courages a  novice  to  form  opinions  of  his  own. 

Virginibus  Puerisque 

Lively  and  inspiring  essays  that  have  Stevenson's 
courageous  optimism  and  his  unfailing  niceties  of  style. 

TALLENTYRE,  S.  G.  (editor) 

Voltaire  in  His  Letters 

A  selection  of  Voltaire 's  letters  arranged  so  as  to  form 
a  biographical  sketch.  The  translator  has  added  a  fore- 
word regarding  the  material. 

WALTON,  ISAAC 

The  Complete  Angler 

A  London  tradesman  of  the  seventeenth  century  spent 
his  holidays  in  the  meadows,  where  he  studied  the  ways 


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of  Nature  in  contrast  to  those  of  mankind.  His  obser- 
vations on  both  are  unchanged  by  the  nine  generations 
of  time  that  have  passed  since  those  days. 


Travel 

BEEBE,  C.  W. 

Jungle  Peace 

A  naturalist 's  way  of  contrasting  the  wild  life  of  Brit- 
ish Guinea  with  the  war  turmoil  of  humanity;  yet  he 
graphically  describes  the  ravages  of  a  marching  army 
of  ants. 

CABOT,  W.  B. 

In  Northern  Labrador 

A  finely  illustrated  travel  story  of  the  cold  north 
country. 

CRAM,  MILDRED 

Old  Seaport  Towns  of  the  South 

DUCHAILLU,  PAUL  B. 

Stories  of  the  Gorilla  Country 

FRANCK,  H.  A. 

Four  Months  Afoot  in  Spain 
A  confirmed  vagabond  tells  of  his  encounters  with 
peasants,  highwaymen,  and  every  manner  of  mankind. 
Full  of  humor  and  adventurous  spirit. 

Tramping  Through  Mexico,  Guatemala,  and 

Honduras 

Published  in  1916  and  therefore  among  the  newest 
books  dealing  with  these  countries. 


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JOHNSON,  CLIFTON 

Along  French  Byway* 

One  of  this  author's  most  popular  books  of  travel. 
Among  English  Hedgerows 

LUCAS,  E.  V. 

A  Wanderer  in  Venice 
A  Wanderer  in  Florence 

The  same  author  has  similar  books  regarding  Paris 
and  London. 

MACMILLAN,  D.  B. 

Four  Years  in  the  White  North 
The  account  of  the  Crocker  hand  expedition. 

MILLER,  L.  E. 

In  the  Wilds  of  South  America 
Relates  the  experiences  of  a  naturalist  during  a  six- 
year  exploration. 

OMOND,  G.  W.  T. 

Belgium 

Amedee  Forestier  painted  the  scenes  illustrating  this 
fine  descriptive  text  regarding  the  Belgium  of  pre-war 
days. 

ROBERTSON,  ERIC 

Wordsworthshire 

A  well-illustrated  account  of  the  influence  of  the  Lake 
District  upon  Wordsworth's  poetic  genius. 

ROOSEVELT,  THEODORE 

African  Game  Trails 

The  account  of  one  of  Roosevelt's  great  physical  ad- 
ventures. 


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Ross,  E.  A. 

South  of  Panama 

STEVENS,  GEORGE  W. 

With  Kitchener  to  Khartoum 

Graphic  descriptions  of  physical  sensations  peculiar  to 
life  in  the  African  desert  and  a  close-up  view  of  Lord 
Kitchener  in  one  of  his  great  campaigns. 

TOMLINSON,  H.  M. 

The  Sea  and  the  Jungle 
Travel  stories  that  excel  in  their  descriptive  values. 


Miscellaneous 

FLETCHER,  ORLJN  0. 

An  Introduction  to  Philosophy 
A  new  guide  that  is  clear  in  its  presentation   and 
authoritative. 

FORSYTH,  P.  T. 

This  Life  and  the  Next 

HODGES,  GEORGE 

How  to  Know  the  Bible 
An  analysis  for  the  layman. 

KING,  H.  C. 

Rational  Living;  Some  Practical  Inferences 

from  Modern  Psychology 

A  digest  of  many  books  put  into  practical  form  for 
general  reading. 


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MOULTON,  RICHARD  GREEN 

A  Short  Introduction  to  the  Literature  of  the 
Bible 

MURRAY,  GILBERT 

Religio  Grammatici 

A  liberal  exposition  of  religion  by  a  great  modern 
scholar. 

TRINE,  RALPH  WALDO 

In  Tune  ^vith  the  Infinite 

A  simple  exposition  of  fundamental  ideas  of  personal 
religion,  so  popular  that  it  has  been  printed  in  eighteen 
languages. 


GROUP  V 

BOOKS  FOR  LEISURE  HOURS  IN 
COLLEGE  OR  OUT 


GROUP  V 

BOOKS  FOR  LEISURE  HOURS  IN  COLLEGE  OR 

OUT 

A  serious  scholar  one  day  found  himself  in 
Frederic  Harrison 's  study  facing  a  twenty-eight 
volume  set  of  Thackeray  spread  out  on  the  read- 
ing table.  At  once  he  expressed  surprise  that  a 
mature  person  could  waste  money  or  time  on 
such  * i  trifles. ' '  He  had  never  learned  that  Thack- 
eray 's  writings  contain  the  greatest  variety  of 
emotional  expression  in  a  most  varied  literary 
style.  Thackeray  is  a  writer  who  can  draw  his 
readers  again  and  again  to  the  same  old  volumes, 
a  lesson  that  the  writer  learned  well  while  on  a 
brief  visit  with  an  English  family  in  Hampshire. 
The  oldest  son  was  home  from  the  Indian  service, 
to  remain  but  a  few  weeks.  How  was  he  spending 
his  short  vacation  in  old  England?  For  one  thing, 
he  was  reading  Thackeray  aloud  with  his  mother. 
Day  after  day  the  two  sat  in  the  garden  or  of  an 
evening  by  the  fireside,  taking  turn  about  with 
the  book  and  pausing  at  times  to  praise  their 
favorite  passages.  The  two  incidents  illustrate 
the  true  and  false  estimates  put  upon  the  best 
prose  fiction. 

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The  novels  named  in  this  group  prove  the  sub- 
tleties and  literary  graces  of  the  type.  Many 
more  could  well  be  included,  but  this  would 
detract  from  other  divisions  of  the  group.  These 
are  important.  Biography  has  the  romance  of 
fiction  and  the  real  value  of  fact.  Drama  has 
great  favor  today  as  literature.  Beyond  the  few 
metropolitan  centers  having  acted  plays  of  merit 
lives  a  great  reading  public  that  knows  modern 
drama  through  books.  Acting  plays  now  in  print 
are  too  numerous  for  notice  here ;  those  interested 
in  drama  study  will  use  the  volumes  listed  under 
"Collections"  in  Group  V  or  the  pamphlets 
issued  by  the  Drama  League  of  America.1  As 
for  literary  essays  and  letters,  their  appeal  is 
more  limited ;  yet  the  few  titles  chosen  to  repre- 
sent this  large  class  show  a  great  variety  of 
substance  and  may  lead  to  highly  profitable  fields 
of  study.  Mature  readers  will  welcome  these 
substitutes  for  prose  fiction,  which  as  young- 
persons  they  perhaps  were  inclined  to  make  their 
staple  means  of  literary  diversion. 


iThe  Boston  and  Chicago  societies  have  printed  such  lists. 
"A  List  of  Plays  for  School  and  College  Production,"  a  pam- 
phlet useful  for  teachers  and  drama  club  officers,  is  issued 
from  the  Chicago  headquarters  of  the  Drama  League  of 
America. 


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Biography 

BOSWELL,  JAMES 

Life  of  Johnson 

One  of  the  world's  great  biographies,  amusing  in  its 
autobiographical  element  and  because  of  Johnson 's  spon- 
taneous retorts  to  Boswell's  unlimited  questioning.  All 
is  set  down  faithfully,  with  the  result  that  Boswell's 
Life  is  our  most  vivid  picture  of  Johnson  and  his  group. 

BOTCHKAREVA,  MARIA 

Yashka.     My  Life  as  Peasant,  Officer,  and 

Exile 

As  Commander  of  the  Women 's  Battalion  of  Death,  the 
author  saw  Russia  under  the  Provisional  Government  and 
during  the  first  weeks  of  Bolshevik  rule.  Direct  view  of 
Russia's  disintegrating  armies. 

BROOKFIELD,  FRANCES  M. 

The  Cambridge  "Apostles" 

Story  of  the  group  of  distinguished  men  centered  in 
the  English  university  during  the  second  quarter  of  the 
nineteenth  century. 

CARLYLE,  THOMAS 

Burns 

A  most  sympathetic  study  of  the  poet  and  his  environ- 
ment. 

Oliver  Cromwell 

An  extensive  study  of  a  typical  Carlyle  hero,  showing 
his  relation  to  the  important  events  of  his  day. 

CELLINI,  BENVENUTO 
Autobiography 

One  of  the  best  approaches  to  the  varied  life  of  the 
Italian  Renaissance. 


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FROUDE,  JAMES  A. 

Thomas  Carlyle 

\  history  of  Carlyle 's  life  in  London,  by  a  modern 
master  of  English  prose. 

GIBBON,  EDWARD 
Autobiography 

In  several  sketches  the  author  of  the  Decline  and  Fall 
of  the  Roman  Empire  related  the  experiences  of  the 
years  spent  in  preparation  for  writing  his  masterpiece, 
of  his  "musing1  amidst  the  ruins  of  the  capitol  while  the 
barefooted  friars  were  singing  vespers  in  the  Temple  of 
Jupiter/' 

GILDER,  J.  L.  AND  J.  B. 

Authors  at  Home:  personal  and  biographical 

sketches  of  ivell-Unoivn  American  writers 
A  refreshing  series  of  literary  studies  by  two  writers 
familiar  with  our  traditions. 

HYNDMAN,  H.  M. 
Clemenceau 

A  biography  written  by  a  personal  friend  who  is  also 
an  English  Socialist  leader.  The  book  goes  into  the 
frustration  of  German  war  plots  within  French  bound- 
aries. 

LEE,  EDMUND 

Dorothy  Wordsworth 

MIMS,  EDWARD 

Sidney  Lanier 

A  biography  of  a  chief  American  poet  who  was 
"national  rather  than  provincial,  open-minded  not 
prejudiced,  modern  and  not  medieval." 


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X  I:\VMAN,  JOHN  HENRY 

Apologia  pro  vita  sua 

\  statement  of  the  religious  opinions  motivating  the 
writer's  actions  and  of  his  share  in  the  Oxford  Move- 
incut.  A  great  spiritual  autobiography. 

PATTISON,  MABK 

Autobiography 

An  unusual  study  of  self  by  a  literary  critic  of  high 
rank. 

Isaac  Casaubon 

"The  best  biography  in  our  language  of  a  scholar,  in 
the  sense  in  which  Pattison,  in  common  with  Casaubon 
and  Scaliger,  understood  the  word. ' ' 

Milton 
An  ideal  literary  biography  for  general  reading. 

PEPYS,  SAMUEL 

Diary 

The  daily  doings,  thoughts,  and  feelings  of  a  London 
man  of  affairs  during  the  days  of  Charles  II.  Unique 
in  its  naivete,  inasmuch  as  Pepys  had  no  idea  that  any- 
one else  would  ever  read  his  private  observations. 

ROUSSEAU,  JEAN  JACQUES 

Confessions 

Pages  of  romantically  beautiful  and  sordid  materials 
mingled  as. in  Rousseau's  own  nature.  An  autobiography 
forecasting  many  phases  of  European  literature  of  the 
nineteenth  century. 

RUSKIN,  JOHN 

Praeterita;  by  himself 
Story  of  his  life  up  to  his  nineteenth  year. 


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SAINT  AUGUSTINE 
Confessions 

Personal  revelations  of  a  highly  sensitive  and  devout 
spirit. 

STANLEY,  AETHUB  P. 

The  Life  of  Doctor  Arnold 
A  great  biography  of  an  educational  reformer. 

THAYER,  WILLIAM  ROSCOE 

Theodore  Roosevelt:  An  Intimate  Biography 
This  is  undoubtedly  to  be  the  standard  biography  of 
Roosevelt,  inasmuch  as  it  is  the  work  of  a  scholar  who 
was  a  close  friend  of  his  subject. 

Fiction 

BENNETT,  ARNOLD 
Hilda  Lessways 

The  woman's  side  of  the  story  in  which  Claylianger 
forms  the  masculine  counterpart.  Hilda's  emotional 
experiences  during  the  year  previous  to  her  marriage 
give  the  reader  proof  of  Bennett's  power  in  vivifying 
the  common  realities  of  obscure  living.  This  is  the  most 
attractive  of  the  three  novels  dealing  with  these  pro- 
vincial characters. 

The  Old  Wives9  Tale 

In  the  life  stories  of  two  sisters  possessing  very  dif- 
ferent natures,  Bennett  finds  the  means  of  showing  how 
temperament  determines  personal  history,  how  modern 
industrialism  engulfs  local  customs,  and  how  remote  from 
truth  are  many  outworn  ideas  of  provincial  England. 


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BESANT,  WALTER 

All  Sorts  and  Conditions  of  Men 
A  picture  of  intelligent  socialism  through  the  story  of 
a  young  girl's  practical  services  in  the  East  End  of 
London.      The   story    brought    to    reality    the    famous 
Peoples'  Palace  of  East  London. 

BRONTE,  EMILY 

Wuthering  Heights 

One  of  the  most  remarkable  pieces  of  English  fiction. 

A  weird  tale,  of  great  power.  The  hero  is  driven  on- 
ward by  bitter  feelings  of  vengeance  and  hatred  toward 
all  mankind.  Nearly  all  the  characters  struggle  with 
binding  passions  or  are  pitifully  weak;  a  few  types  of 
Yorkshire  country  folk  give  realistic  relief. 

BUTLER,  SAMUEL 

The  Way  of  All  Flesh 

A  story  of  autobiographic  substance,  being  the  result 
of  twenty  years  study.  The  hero  reacts,  as  did  Butler 
himself,  against  smug  conventionalities  in  the  religious 
morality  of  modern  England.  In  the  vein  of  Shaw 
and  George  Moore.. 

CABLE,  GEORGE  W. 

The  Grandissimes 

Dr.  Sevier 

Two  novels  of  New  Orleans  that  deal  wifh  the  tragedy 
and  romance  of  old  Creole  days;  unique  among  local 
color  stories  of  American  life  for  their  full  picturing  of 
a  lost  social  group. 

CERVANTES,  SAAVEDRA,  MIGUEL  DE 

Don  Quixote  de  la  Mancha 
A  satire  on  chivalric  romances. 


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The  adventures  of  the  knight  and  Sancho  Panzo,  his 
squire,  have  made  men  laugh  for  four  hundred  years 
even  while  culling  out  bits  of  wisdom  and  proverbial 
reflections. 

COLLINS,  W.  WILKIE 
The  Moonstone 

A  detective  story  based  partly  on  real  mysteries  sur- 
rounding famous  jewels.  Second  only  to  The  Woman  in 
White  for  sustained  interest  through  sheer  use  of  inci- 
dent. 

The  Woman  in  White 

One  of  the  first  modern  detective  stories  and  among 
the  best.  Count  Fosco,  a  person  of  great  subtelty  and 
with  a  keen  sense  of  humor,  is  a  unique  figure. 

DAUDET,  ALPHONSE 

Tartarin  of  Tarascon,  Traveler,  "Turk,"  and 

Lion  Hunter 

A  quixotic  braggart  whose  amusing  attempts  at  valor 
lead  to  a  journey  into  Algeria  and  appropriately  pre- 
posterous tales  of  his  courage. 

DUMAS,  ALEXANDER 

The  Three  Musketeers 

French  history  of  the  seventeenth  century  gives  a 
setting  for  acts  of  heroism  and  adventure,  much  of  it 
being  centered  about  court  intrigues.  Twenty  Years 
Later  and  The  Vicomte  de  Bragclonn-e  bring  the  four 
heroes  through  the  events  of  French  history  making  the 
reign  of  Louis  XIV  a  most  romantic  epoch. 

Du  MAUBIEB,  GEORGE 

Trilby 
A  story  of  happy  Bohemian  life  in  the  Latin  Quarter 


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of  Paris.  Svengali's  sensational  exercise  of  hypnotic 
power  over  the  heroine  gives  the  book  an  element  of 
sadness,  but  its  general  impression  is  quite  the  opposite. 

FIELDING,  HENRY 

Tom  Jones 

A  natural  youth,  unhampered  by  social  convention, 
passes  through  adolescence  to  manhood.  The  occasional 
grossness  of  Fielding's  descriptions  cannot  obscure  the 
epic  proportions  of  the  narrative  or  its  historical  and 
literary  values. 

GRAHAME,  KENNETH 
The  Golden  Age 

Joyous  stories  of  child  life,  with  many  quick  contrasts 
showing  appreciation  of  the  mingled  lights  and  shades 
of  childhood. 

HUGO,  VICTOR 

Les  Miserable 

A  novel  of  epic  structure,  dramatic  and  philosophic 
by  turns.  Its  magnificent  scenes  equal  those  of  his 
Notre-Dam^  de  Paris;  its  analyses  of  the  best  and  worst 
in  human  nature  are  peculiarly  its  own. 

Ninety-three 

His  last  great  novel;  of  poetic  quality  and  as  richly 
human  as  any  of  his  earlier  works. 

JACOBS,  W.  W. 

Light  Freights 

Coasting  stories,  having  amusing  comments  on  land- 
lubbers. 

Many  Cargoes 

A  Love  Passage,  In  Mid- Atlantic,  and  Mated  are  in- 
cluded in  this  group  of  sea  tales. 


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JAMES,  HENRY 

The  American 

This  story  of  differences  in  national  and  personal  tem- 
perament makes  much  of  American  pluck  and  good 
nature  in  contrast  to  the  pride  and  self-satisfaction  of 
French  nobility. 

MAUPASSANT,  GUY  DE 
The  Odd  Number 

English  translations  of  famous  short  stories,  among 
them  being  "The  Piece  of  String "  and  "The  Necklace." 

MEREDITH,  GEORGE 

The  Egoist:  a  Comedy  in  Narrative 

Through  the  character  of  Willoughby  the  evils  of  self- 
ishness and  sentimentalism  are  laid  open  to  view;  Clara 
Middleton  embodies  Meredith 's  ideas  of  womankind.  The 
entire  novel,  a  very  long  one,  has  brilliant  bits  of  wit 
and  satire,  with  a  pervading  spirit  of  seeking  the  realities 
of  social  living  and  of  exposing  its  shams. 

The  Ordeal  of  Richard  Feverel 
The  story  of  a  father's  attempts  to  rear  his  son  under 
a  purely  rational  system.  Its  actors  pass  through  scenes 
of  rich  poetic  beauty,  their  inner  thoughts  and  feelings 
being  always  the  central  interest.  Less  abstruse  than 
The  Egoist  and  an  excellent  introduction  to  this  author. 

Dicma  of  the  Crossways 

Meredith's  supreme  creation  is  Diana,  the  beautiful 
and  unconventional  heroine  of  this  novel.  Her  intellect 
and  mobility  of  character  give  natural  incentive  to  a 
story  involving  social  problems  still  unsolved  by  modern 
society. 


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MERRICK,  LEONARD 

Conrad  in  Quest  of  His  Youth 
The  hero's  quest  is  the  universal  one  of  mankind,  but 
the  telling  is  done  with  a  grace  and  distinction  peculiar 
to  Merrick.  A  reader  of  Conrad  will  need  no  further 
guidance  toward  other  books  by  the  same  author.  All 
his  stories  show  the  influences  of  French  life  and  literary 
forms. 

PAGE,  THOMAS  NELSON 

John  Marvel,  Assistant 

An  important  book  on  account  of  its  analysis  of  social 
unrest  in  the  South  and  West.  The  story  deals  with  the 
friendships  of  three  men  meeting  in  a  Southern  college, 
all  of  them  in  love  with  the  same  girl. 

PARKER,  SIR  GILBERT 

The  Right  of  Way:  being  the  Story  of  Char- 

ley  Steele  and  Another 

An  engrossing  romance  that  sustains  the  reader's  in- 
terest from  the  opening  scene  in  a  Montreal  court-room 
until  Charley  Steele 's  ears  are  "forever  closed  to  the 
voices  of  life  and  time." 

SHORTHOUSE,  JOSEPH  H. 

Jean  Inglesant 

A  subjective  novel  creating  anew  the  air  of  mysticism 
astir  in  the  time  of  Charles  I.  In  general  effects  the 
book  is  a  survey  of  English  customs  and  beliefs  during 
the  seventeenth  century ;  it  likewise  has  some  important 
historical  settings  from  Rome  and  Naples. 

THACKERAY,  WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE 

The    History    of   Henry    Esmond,   Esq.,    a 
Colonel   in   the   Service   of  Her  Majesty 
Queen  Anne;  written  by  himself 
The  duels,  social  courtesies,  and  love  affairs  of  this 


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English  gentleman  illustrate  the  aristocratic  life  of 
Queen  Anne's  England.  Certain  scenes  have  as  fine 
action  and  spirit  as  can  be  found  in  Thackeray. 

The  Virginians 

Deals  with  personages  and  events  of  the  French  and 
Indian  War.  It  is  a  continuation  of  Henry  Esmond 
through  an  account  of  his  American  descendants. 
Beatrix  is  a  noteworthy  character. 

TROLLOPE,  ANTHONY 

Barchester  Towers 

This  view  of  upper  class  living  in  England  a  genera- 
tion ago  takes  up  the  story  of  episcopal  jealousies,  in- 
trigues, and  disappointments  where  The  Warden  laid  it 
down.  Unquestionably  Trollope's  masterpiece. 

WALPOLE,  HUGH 

The  Secret  City 

A  story  of  Petrograd,  "the  dark  forest  of  the  hearts 
of  men."  This  passionate  and  dramatic  tale  is  alive 
with  the  spirit  of  the  Revolution. 

WELLS,  H.  G. 

Kipps:  the  Story  of  a  Simple  Soul 
The  experiences  of  an  English  draper's  assistant,  sud- 
dently  come  into  wealth,  are  made  the  means  to  clever 
satire   on   class   distinctions.      Amusing   and   not   over- 
burdened with  theorizing. 

The  New  Machiavelli 

A  biographical  novel  whose  hero  is  center  for  the 
author's  ideas  on  social  and  political  questions.  Because 
of  its  caricatures  of  living  Englishmen  and  its  apparent 
slurs  on  the  institution  of  marriage,  the  book  has  had 
unusual  attention. 


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WILKINS,  MARY  E. 

A  New  England  Nun  and  Other  Stories 
Compact,  highly  realistic  stories,  that  reach  the  deep- 
est feelings  of  simple  country  people. 

Drama 

BARRIE,  SIB  JAMES 

Peter  Pan 

What  Every  Woman  Knows 

Half  Hours 

The  first  two  are  simple  plays  showing  Barrie's  fairy 
phantasy  and  canny  sense  of  .Scotch  characteristics. 
Half  Hours  is  a  group  of  four  short  plays. 

DUNSANY,  LORD  (EDWARD  PLUNKETT) 

Five  Plays 

The  plays  are  The  Gods  of  the  Mountain,  The  Golden 
Doom,  King  Argimenes  and  the  Unknown  Warrior,  The 
Glittering  Gate,  and  The  Lost  Silk  Hat.  His  Plays  of 
Gods  and  Men  contains  four  of  later  issue. 

FITCH,  CLYDE 

Nathan  Hale 

A  play  using  the  fine  historical  material  of  Hale 's 
martyrdom  in  combination  with  a  love  story  of  romantic 
quality. 

GILBERT,  WILLIAM  S. 
H.  M.  S.  Pinafore 
The  Pirates  of  Penzance 
Patience 
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up  into  quotations  because  universally  popular.     Clean 
fun  and  bright  humor,  with  the  spirit  of  Gilbert's  "Bab 


Ballads. 

HAUPTMANN,  GERHART 
The  Sunken  Bell 

A  symbolic  drama  of  great  poetic  beauty;  its  theme 
is  the  conflict  of  idealism  and  conventional,  materialistic 
living. 

The  Weavers 

Through  an  uprising  of  Silesian  peasantry  the  author 
gives  a  naturalistic  view  of  the  terrible  circumstances 
surrounding  the  masses  in  Europe. 

IBSEN,  HENRIK 

The  Doll's  House 

The  swift  evolution  of  an  egotistical  husband's  "doll" 
gave  European  society  great  ground  for  discussion  and 
likewise  a  new  kind  of  dramatic  energy. 

JONES,  HENRY  ARTHUR 

Mary  Goes  First 

A  delightful  high  comedy  by  an  English  dramatist 
who  possesses  great  critical  power  and  the  will  to  enlarge 
"modern  pessimistic  realism"  to  a  survey  of  life  in  all 
its  aspects. 

MASEFIELD,  JOHN 
Nan 

A  grim  tragedy  of  provincial  England.  The  entranc- 
ing symbolic  use  of  the  sea  suggests  Masefield's  varied 
understanding  of  the  ocean;  read  his  "Salt  Water  Bal- 
lads" and  "Tales  of  the  Roundhouse,"  available  in  his 
Poems  and  Plays  recently  issued  in  two  volumes,  for  a 
full  appreciation  of  his  power. 


CINDERELLA  AND  HER  FAIRY  GODMOTHER 

From  Cruikshank's  Fairy  Tales 
Courtesy  of  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York 


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PARKER,  L.  N. 
Disraeli 

A  successful  historical  drama  centered  about  the 
character  of  Lord  Beaconsfield. 

PINERO,  ARTHUR  WING 

The  Second  Mrs.  Tanqueray 
A  play  that  set  public  opinion  to  quarrelling  with 
itself  some  twenty-five  years  ago.    Suggests  the  plot  sub- 
stance of  Hardy's  novels  in  its  submissal  of  the  chief 
characters  to  the  fate  of  their  past  sins. 

ROSTAND,  EDMOND 

Cyrano  de  Bergerac 

A  " heroic  comedy"  first  acted  by  Coquelin  in  1897 
to  tumultuous  applause ;  since  translated  into  all  modern 
languages. 

SHAW,  GEORGE  BERNARD 

You  Never  Can  Tell 

Major  Barbara 

The  Showing -up  of  Blanco  Posnet 

Caesar  and  Cleopatra 

A  representative  group  of  Shaw's  plays  available  in 
most  American  libraries. 

SHELDON,  EDWARD 
Salvation  Nell 

SYNGE,  JOHN  M. 

The  Playboy  of  the  Western  World 
The  wild  acts  of  this  young  ne'er-do-well  presumably 
reproduce  a  true  story  of  western  Ireland.     The  favor 
shown  Synge's  dramatic  artistry  led  to  violent  argu- 
ment over  such  presentation  of  Irish  character. 


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WILDE,  OSCAR 

Lady  Winder  mere's  Fan 

The  heroine,  who  dominates  the  action  of  this  modern 
English  comedy,  gives  a  full  characterization  of  herself 
in  a  closing  scene:  "I  lost  one  illusion  last  night.  I 
thought  I  had  no  heart.  I  find  I  have,  and  a  heart 
doesn't  suit  me,  Windermere.  Somehow  it  doesn't  go 
with  a  modern  dress.  It  makes  one  look  old. ' ' 

YEATS,  WILLIAM  BUTLER 

Cathleen-ni-Hoolihan 

The  Hour-Glass 

Fine  poetic  structures  by  an  artist  who  promoted  the 
modern  revival  of  Irish  letters. 

Essays  and  Letters 

ARNOLD,  MATTHEW 

Culture  and  Anarchy 

The  essay  sent  forth  fifty  years  ago  calling  upon  nar- 
row-minded, complacent  Englishmen  to  admit  the  spirit- 
ual forces  of  culture  to  a  place  in  the  daily  round  of 
life. 

MARCUS  AURELIUS 

Meditations 

Moral  precepts  with  the  cool,  courageous  austerity  of 
Stoicism. 

BROWNE,  SIR  THOMAS 

Relif/io  Medici 

A  seventeenth  century  study  of  immortality,  phrased 
in  gorgeous  dignity  and  bearing  all  the  elements  of 
mature,  serious  prose. 


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CABOT,  EICHABD  C. 

What  Men  Live  By:  Work,  Play,  Love,  Wor- 

ship 

These  comments  upon  modern  living  convince  a  reader 
by  their  straightforward  honesty  and  keep  his  interest 
through  an  avoidance  of  mere  theorizing. 

CARLYLE,  THOMAS 

Past  and  Present 

Carlyle's  arraignment  of  contemporary  evils  in  Eng- 
land, heightened  by  contrasting  pictures  from  the  past. 

GALSWORTHY,  JOHN 

The  Inn  of  Tranqullity 

A  Commentary 

Another  Sheaf 

These  volumes  give  Galsworthy's  early  comments  on 
modern  society  and  his  recent  forecast  of  reconstruction 
days  to  follow  the  World  War. 


THOMAS 
Letters 

The  inner  thoughts  of  a  true  poet  concerning  the  per- 
sons and  literary  standards  of  his  own  generation. 

JERROLD,  DOUGLAS 

Mrs.  Caudle's  Curtain  Lectures 
The    famous    humorous    essays    that    established    the 
quality  of  Punch. 

LAMB,  CHARLES 

The  Essays  of  Elia 
Familiar  essays  on  men  and  things. 
Gracious  and  amiable  comments  on  his  fellow-men,  on 


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books,  and  on  the  many  pleasant  sights  that  lay  before 
Lamb's  observing  eye. 

PATER,  WALTER 
Appreciations 

Contains  the  essays  on  Lamb  and  Shakspere,  on  style, 
and  on  aesthetic  poetry. 

RITCHIE,  ANNE  I. 

Mme.  de  Sevigne 

Selected  letters  from  the  correspondence  of  this 
famous  French  letter-writer. 

RUSKIN,  JOHN 

Sesame  and  Lilies 

Treats  of  spiritual  values  to  be  gained  through  reading 
and  of  woman's  place  in  the  world.  One  of  the  high 
watermarks  of  nineteenth  century  prose. 

SCOTT,  DIXON 

Men  of  Letters 

New  appreciations  of  living  writers — Shaw,  Kipling, 
Barrie,  and  Chesterton. 


Miscellaneous 

CRAM,  RALPH  A. 

Architecture  in  Its  Relation  to  Civilization 

An  historical  survey  showing  how  the  art  forms  of 
Time  fall  away  at  changes  of  government.  A  call  to  new 
vigor  in  expressive  art  and  a  freeing  from  Gothic 
formulae. 


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The  Gothic  Quest 

Chapters  on  church  architecture  in  Europe  ;m<l 
America. 

The  Ministry  of  Art 

Lectures  on  the  place  of  art  in  a  practical  age,  with 
special  regard  to  American  architecture. 

KlMBALL,   F.   AND  EDGELL,  G.   H. 

History  of  Architecture 

An  excellent  aid  to  appreciation.  Among  the  most 
recent  books  treating  the  subject  historically. 

MASON,  DANIEL  GREGORY 

Contemporary  Composers 

This  study  of  noteworthy  composers  completes  the 
series  of  four  volumes  carrying  the  history  of  music 
through  from  Beethoven's  time  to  the  present. 


GEOUP  VI 

SPECIAL  LISTS  FOE  MATTJEE 
EEADEES 


GROUP  VI 
SPECIAL  LISTS  FOR  MATURE  READERS 

The  final  group  has  sub-divisions  appealing  to 
readers  of  various  kinds.  The  English  Bible,  as 
literature,  has  had  recognition  in  America  of 
recent  years  similar  to  that  given  it  in  England 
through  many  generations.  It  should  be  the  per- 
manent possession  of  every  educated  reader. 
Books  on  professions  and  vocations  are  of  very 
great  importance  to  everyone  at  some  stage  in 
life;  for  this  reason  a  special  place  has  been 
made  for  them  in  this  group.  As  for  the  list 
of  works  on  the  World  War,  its  mingled  titles 
offer  fact  and  fiction  based  on  truth.  The  aim 
has  been  to  bring  together  the  names  of  the  best 
books  thus  far  in  print.  This  list,  however, 
should  be  lengthened  from  time  to  time,  for  the 
truly  comprehensive  studies  still  unwritten  will 
undoubtedly  outdistance  many  of  these  works. 
Xo  explanation  is  needed  of  the  further  sugges- 
tions in  fiction  and  drama,  except  that  .they  offer 
something  like  historical  treatment  of  these  two 
literary  forms,  in  foreign  literature  as  well  as 
in  English.  All  the  books  mentioned  are  avail- 
able in  translation. 

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The  Collections  listed  as  the  final  sub-division 
are  single  volumes  containing  much  material. 
The  books  on  drama,  taken  together,  form  excel- 
lent reading  courses  in  English,  American,  and 
modern  European  drama.  The  collections  of 
poetry  are  equally  valuable  for  such  use.  The 
reader  who  has  been  disappointed  at  the  neglect 
of  poetry  in  the  present  volume,  is  referred  to 
Manly 's  English  Prose  and  Poetry  (1137-1892), 
an  admirable  historical  presentation  of  English 
literature  by  means  of  selections.  The  notes  on 
separate  pieces  give  a  critical  understanding  of 
English  literature  far  beyond  the  possibility  or 
purpose  of  this  guide  book. 

THE  ENGLISH  BIBLE 

Genesis 
The  origin  of  the  world  and  of  the  chosen  nation. 

Judges 

Lyric  stories  of  Israel's  national  heroes. 

Isaiah 

Dramatic  visions  of  God's  judgments  upon  idolatrous 
nations  and  of  His  loving  kindness  toward  Israel. 

Ruth 
An  idyllic  story  rich  in  poetic  beauty. 

Job 

A  dramatization  of  the  ancient  belief  in  the  conflict 
of  Evil  and  Good. 


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Psalms 

The  unfailing  source  of  man's  devotional  language 
in  praise  of  his  Maker  is  still  this  book  of  lyric  prose. 

Matthew 

Most  concise  of  the  Gospels,  but  bearing  the  greatest 
measure  of  Christ's  own  words. 

Mark 

The  most  simple  and  concrete  story  of  Christ's  work. 

Luke 
"The  most  beautiful  book  in  the  world." 

John 

Concerned  largely  with  Christ's  philosophical  dispu- 
tations 'brought  on  by  close  defenders  of  the  old  law. 

I  Corinthians 

Paul's  most  important  pastoral  epistle  in  point  of 
constructive  directions  regarding  the  church  of  Christ. 

Revelation 
John's  vision  of  the  new  Jerusalem. 

MOULTON,  RICHARD  GREEX 

The  Modern  Reader's  Bible 

This  volume  of  text  and  comment  teaches  the  religious 
and  literary  values  of  the  English  Bible  in  a  way  to  at- 
tract all  mature  readers. 


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Political  and  Social  Life  of  the  United 
States 

ADAM$,  HENRY 

The  Education  of  Henry  Adams 

An  autobiography  that  depicts  New  England  of  the 
past  generation,  with  keen  commentaries  on  men  and 
customs. 

ADD  AM  s,  JANE 

The  Spirit  of  Youth  and  the  City  Streets 

Realities  regarding  the  conditions  that  repress  natural 
youthful  pleasure  in  American  cities. 

BRIDGES,  HORACE  J. 

On  Becoming  an  American 

An  exposition  of  our  national  ideals,  written  particu- 
larly for  immigrants.  The  author  was  born  and  reared 
in  England,  becoming  an  American  citizen  only  a  few 
years  ago. 

BRYCE,  JAMES 

The  American  Commonwealth 

A  standard  survey  of  our  government,  social  customs, 
and  national  assets. 

DILNOT,  FRANK 

The  Neiv  America 

An  estimate  of  our  political  leaders,  our  ways  of  life, 
and  our  general  usefulness  in  the  world;  written  by  an 
Englishman  who  was  visiting  the  United  States  at  the 
time  war  was  declared  on  Germany. 


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DUNNING,  WILLIAM  A. 

Reconstruction,  Political  and  Economic 

FINLEY,  JOHN 

The  French  in  the  Heart  of  America 
One  of  America's  best  known  educators  and  men-of- 
letters  retells  Parkman's  story  with  many  added  details. 

FISHER,  SIDNEY  G. 

M en,  Women  and  Manners  in  Colonial  Times 

FISKE,  JOHN 

Civil  Government  in  the  United  States 
The  War  of  Independence 
The  Beginnings  of  New  England 
Old  Virginia  and  Her  Neighbors 
Dutch  and  Quaker  Colonies  in  America 

FOWLER,  N.  C. 

How  to  Obtain  Citizenship 

Information  as  to  method  of  becoming  a  United  States 
citizen  given  in  English,  Italian,  Yiddish,  German,  and 
French. 

HOWELLS,  WILLIAM  DEAN 

A  Boy's  Town 

These  incidents  are  from  the  life  of  an  Ohio  boy  who 
lived  from  his  third  to  eleventh  year  on  the  banks  of 
the  Miami.  The  time  is  back  in  the  40 's.  Old  and 
young  will  find  interesting  matter  in  these  reminiscences. 

LOMAX,  J.  A. 

Cowboy  Ballads 
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poems  known  best  to  the  genuine  cowboy  of  the  Western 
plains. 

MORSE,  BICHARD 

"Fear  God  in  Your  Own  Village" 

An   exposition   of   religious,   intellectual,    and   social 
reform  in  a  rural  community. 

MUNROE,  WILLIAM  BENNETT 

The  Government  of  the  United  States 
A  solid  study  of  national,  state,  and  local  government. 

MYERS,  W.  S. 

Socialism  and  American  Ideals 
Showing    the    un-American    qualities    in    European 
socialism. 

NICHOLSON,  MEREDITH 

The  Valley  of  Democracy 
Present-day  impressions  of  the  Middle  West. 

NORDHOFF,  CHARLES 

Politics  for  Youuy  Americans 
A  standard  manual  for  popular  reading. 

PAGE,  R.  W. 

Dramatic  Moments  in  American  Diplomacy 
i 
PARKMAN,  FRANCIS 

Discovery  of  the  Great  West 

The  Oregon  Trail 

As  a  trained  observer  and  historian,  Parkman  was 
prepared  to  gather  all  the  significant  materials  on  his 


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journey  westward  during  1846.     Many  of  his  narrative 
descriptions  of  pioneer  life  are  without  parallel. 

RHODES,  JAMES  FORD 

History  of  the  United  States  from  II  ay  ex  f<> 

McKinley,  1877-1896 

Historians  accept  this  new  volume  as  an  authoritative 
study  of  our  history  during  the  years  of  reconstruction, 
and  internal  development. 

Rus,  JACOB  A. 

The  Making  of  an  American 
Foremost  among  the  older  revelations  of  conditions  en- 
countered by  the  emigrant  to  America. 

ROOSEVELT,  THEODORE 

Stories  of  the  Great  West 
The  Winning  of  the  West 

STEINER,  EDWARD 

Nationalising  America 

A  recent  book  similar  in  purpose  to  the  author 's  '  *  On 
the  Trail  of  the  Immigrant." 

TAFT,  WILLIAM  HOWARD 

Four  Aspects  of  Civic  Duty 
Four  lectures  on  the  responsibilities  of  American  riti- 
zenship. 

WHITLOCK,  BRAND 

Forty  Years  of  It 

In  interest  and  in  variety  of  information  this  book 
surpasses  any  other  single  volume  regarding  personal 
experiences  in  American  city  government. 


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WILLIAMS,  SHERMAN 

New  York's  Part  in  History 

A  recent  chronological  record  that  demonstrates  how 
vitally  New  York  state  aided  in  the  construction  of  our 
government;  intended  as  a  definite  addition  to  the  New 
England  tradition. 

WlLLOUGHBY,  W.  F. 

The  Government  of  Modern  States 

A  clear  exposition  of  the  various  forms  of  government 
in  existence.  The  book  is  free  from  burdensome  techni- 
cal details. 

AVlLSON,  WOODROW 

Division  and  Reunion 


Political  and  Social  Life  of  Other 
Countries 

BEER,  GEORGE  L. 

The  English-speaking  Peoples,  Their  Future 
Relations  and  Joint  International  Obliga- 
tions 

Treats  of  the  economic  and  political  grounds  of  union 
among  Anglo-Saxon  peoples  as  seen  in  the  light  of  recent 
events. 

BOULGER,  D.  C. 

Holland  of  the  Dutch 
A  travel  book  offering  a  great  variety  of  information. 


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CARLYLE,  THOMAS 

History  of  the  French  Revolution 
A  monumental  work.  The  volumes  convey  a  personifi- 
cation of  the  French  national  structure  in  its  hour  of 
stress  and  likewise  a  warning  to  England  lest  she  too 
be  changed  by  similar  forces.  Illustrious  for  graphic 
description  and  portraiture. 

Latter  Day  Pamphlets 

A  scathing  arraignment  of  Tory  Liberalism  that  re- 
veals the  political  philosophy  governing  England  about 
1850.  This  calling  for  strong  leaders  rather  than  rule 
through  popular  majorities  was  effective,  even  though 
still  unjustified  of  history. 

Past  and  Present 

A  great  literary  and  political  document,  conveying 
Carlyle's  characteristic  ideas  by  means  of  a  contrast  be- 
tween past  days  and  present. 

COLLIER,  PRICE 

England  and  the  English  from  an  American 

Point  of  View 

A  book  that  has  had  thirteen  printings  within  five 
years. 

Germany  and  the  Germans  from  an  American 

Point  of  View 

As  interesting  as  the  author's  book  on  England,  and 
of  peculiar  importance  because  published  in  1913. 

COOLIDGE,  ARCHIBALD  C. 

Origins  of  the  Triple  Alliance 
Three  lectures  on  the  last  phases  of  European  politics 
before  the  World  War. 


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DE  MAX,  HENRY 

The  Remaking  of  a  Mind 

One  product  of  the  World  War.  The  author,  a  Bel- 
gian, explains  minutely  the  changes  of  feeling  regarding 
socialism  caused  by  his  study  of  war  and  its  consequences. 
A  brilliant  and  honest  thinker  shows  the  need  of  human 
reconstruction. 

DICKINSON,  G.  LOWES 

The  Greek  View  of  Life 

A  stimulating  survey  of  Greek  culture  and  govern- 
ment, 

DUNCAN,  NORMAN 

Australian  Byways 

Through  true  tales  of  pearl  fishing,  gold  digging,  and 
sporting  exploits,  the  author  depicts  the  native  life  of 
Australia. 

ERASMUS 
Letters 

Showing  through  the  autobiographic  record  of  per- 
sonal correspondence  how  Europe  broke  the  intellectual 
bondage  of  the  Middle  Ages. 

F AIRBRIDGE,  D. 

A  History  of  South  Africa 

The  story  of  England's  development  of  the  continent. 
New,  compact,  and  well  illustrated. 

FRASER,  J.  F. 

The  Amazing   Argentine;   a   New  Land   of 
Enterprise 


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GIBBON,  EDWARD 

The  Decline  and  Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire 
A  finely  proportioned  account  in  noble  style,  with  re- 
markable dramatic  values.  The  book  has  likewise  autobio- 
graphic interest. 

GIBBONS,  H.  A. 

The  New  Map  of  Africa 

A  single   volume,   with   maps,   covering  the   colonial 
growth  of  Africa.    Full  of  interesting  matter. 

GREENE,  J.  R. 

A  Short  History  of  the  English  People 
The  standard  brief  account  of  English  political  and 
social  history  through  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth 
century. 

HACKETT,  FRANCIS 

Ireland:  A  Study  in  Nationalism 
A  sympathetic  but  acute  study  of  a  vexing  question. 

HEADLAND,  I.  T. 

Home  Life  in  China 

Amusing  and  exact  descriptions  of  Chinese  manners 
and  customs. 

HEARN,  LAFCADIO 

Glimpses  of  Unfamiliar  Japan 
Hearn's  most  vivid  impressions  of  the  Japan  that  was 
before    modern    industrialism    changed    conditions    of 
living. 

Japan:  An  Interpretation 

A  most  discerning  estimate  showing  rare  intellectual 
and  aesthetic  appreciation  of  modern  Japan. 


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HERSHEY,  AMOS  S.  AND  SUSANNE  W. 

Modern  Japan.    Social,  Industrial,  Political 
A  new  work  based  on  personal  observation  of  the 
many  changes  in  Japanese  civilization. 

JUSSERAND,  JEAN  J. 

English  Wat/faring  Life  in  the  Middle  Ages 
A  book  that  makes  the  dead  past  a  living  object  of 
interest  for  all  mature  readers. 

KNOX,  JOHN 

History  of  the  Reformation  in  Scotland 
An  autobiographic  book  that  contains  much  vigorous 
prose.     Noteworthy  because  of  its  descriptions. 

LAUT,  A.  C. 

Canada,  the  Empire  of  the  North 

LAVELL,  C.  E.  AND  PAYNE,  C.  E. 

Imperial  England 

This  new,  comprehensive  survey  of  all  the  British  pos- 
sessions enters  into  the  history  and  peculiar  character- 
istics of  every  one. 

LOMAS,  JOHN 
In  Spain 

LOWELL,  A.  LAWRENCE 

Greater  European  Governments 

MACHIAVELLI,  NICOLLO  DI  BERNARDO 

The  Prince 
A  complete  view  of  the  unscrupulous  methods  of  gov- 


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eminent  controlling  Italian  politics  during  the  sixteenth 
century;  the  vicious  model  of  many  rulers  during  suc- 
ceeding generations. 

MACKIE,  ROBERT  L. 
Scotland 

\  new  "  account  of  her  triumphs  and  defeats,  her 
manners,  institutions,  and  achievements." 

MAHAN,  A.  T. 

The  Influence  of  Sea  Power  on  History, 
1660-1783 

Among  the  most  illuminating  studies  of  the  sources 
of  political  and  economic  power. 

MAN  ATT,  J.  I. 

Aegean  Days 
Sketches  of  mingled  old  and  new  Greece. 

]\IARTINEAU,  HARRIET 
Autobiography 

The  opinions  current  in  England  during  the  fifty 
years  preceding  1875  are  honestly  discussed  herein. 
The  writer  was  a  novelist  of  some  merit,  better  known 
for  her  constant  interest  in  political  and  social  problems. 

MASSON,  DAVID 

Life,  of  Milton,  narrated  in  connection  with 
the  political,  ecclesiastical,  and  literary 
history  of  the  time 

A  graphic  survey  of  forty  momentous  years  in  Eng- 
land 's  history ; .  conceived  on  Carlyle  's  plan  of  inter- 
preting an  age  through  the  life-story  of  an  individual. 


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MORFILL,  W.  R. 

Russia  and  Poland 

A  standard  work  that  has  been  revised  recently  to 
meet  changing  conditions. 

MORLEY,  VISCOUNT  JOHN 
Recollections 

These  two  volumes  are  much  more  than  biography; 
they  form  a  survey  of  English  political  history  through- 
out the  last  generation. 

MOTLEY,  JOHN  L. 

The  Rise  of  the  Dutch  Republic 

One  of  the  books  treating  history  as  literature.  In 
style  imitative  of  Carlyle. 

PLATO 

Republic 

The  Greek  vision  of  the  ideal  state ;  profoundly  influ- 
ential in  both  political  and  literary  history. 

POINCARE,  RAYMOND 

How  France  Is  Governed 

A  description  of  the  various  departments  of  the 
French  Government,  by  a  President  of  the  Republic. 
Translated  by  Bernard  Miall. 

RUHL,  ARTHUR 

The  Other  Americans 

The  people  of  Central  and  South  America,  their  cities, 
nnd  ways  of  living.  New  materials,  collected  by  a  fine 
descriptive  writer. 


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STOBART,  J.  C. 

The  Glory  Tliat  Was  Greece:  a  Survey  of 

Hellenic  Culture  and  Civilization 
The  Grandeur  that  was  Rome:  a  Survey  of 
Roman  Culture  and  Civilization 

TURNER,  EDWARD  K. 

Ireland  and  England 

One  reviewer  calls  this  "the  unvarnished  historical 
truth"  regarding  the  century-long  conflict  of  opinion. 
The  work  of  an  eminent  scholar. 

WARE,  M.  S. 

The  Old  World  Through  New  Eyes 

\  new  account  of  Eastern  civilization  based  on  three 
years  of  travel  in  the  Orient. 

WEALE,  B.  L. 

The  Truth  About  China  and  Japan 

The  author  has  long  been  counted  an  authority  on 
matters  in  the  Near  East,  especially  in  China.  His 
opinion  on  international  problems  now  under  discussion 
has  unusual  value. 

Professions  and  Vocations 

AUBOT,  WILLIS  J. 

The  Story  of  the  American  Merchant  Marine 

A  student  of  trade  and  navigation  tells  how  remark- 
ably our  merchant  marine  has  grown  under  war  con- 
ditions. 


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ALLEN,  FREDERICK  J. 

The  Law  as  a  Vocation 

BABSON,  ROGER  W. 

Bonds  and  Stocks:  the  Elements  of  Success- 
ful Investing 

CABOT,  EICHARD  C. 

Training  and  Rewards  of  a  Physician 
A  Layman's  Handbook  of  Medicine,  with  Spe- 
cial Reference  to  Social  Workers 
Social  Work.  Essays  on  the  Meeting -Ground 

of  Doctor  and  Social  Worker 
No  other  American  has  equally  high  reputation  for 
showing  the  finer  aspects  of  medical  work. 

CUNLIFFE  AND  LoMER 

Writing  of  Today 

A  collection  of  excellent  specimens  illustrating  news- 
writing  in  its  varied  forms ;  intended  as  a  text  for  schools 
of  journalism. 

DIMOCK,  J.  A. 

The  New  Business  of  Farming 

DODGE,  H.  H. 

Survey  of  Occupations  Open  to  the  Girl  of 
Fourteen  to  Sixteen  Years 

FILSINGER,  ERNEST  D. 

Exporting  to  Latin  America 
Gives  information  on  the  business  methods  of  various 
countries  that  is  almost  inaccessible  elsewhere. 


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GOWIN,  ENOCH  B. 

The  Executive  and  His  Control  of  Men;  A 
Study  in  Personal  Efficiency 

By  studying  successful  executives  the  writer  has  gath- 
ered the  facts  about  self -development  for  leadership  and 
for  skill  in  handling  other  men. 

GOWIN,  E.  B.  AND  WHEATLEY,  W.  A. 

Occupations;  a  Text  book  in  Vocational  Guid- 
ance 

A  textbook  that  will  aid  anyone  in  finding  himself, 
whether  he  be  of  school  age  or  older. 

HARRINGTON,  H.  F.  AND  FRANKENBERG,  T.  T. 

Essentials  in  Journalism 
' '  A  manual  in  newspaper  making  for  college  classes. ' ' 

HATFIELD,  H.  R. 

Modern  Accounting;  Its  Principles  and  Some 
of  Its  Problems 

HOOVER,  S.  E. 

The  Science  and  Art  of  Salesmanship 

HOUGH,  B.  OLNEY 

Practical  Exporting 

A  new,  thorough-going  survey  of  the  practical  and 
financial  ways  into  foreign  markets. 

HYDE,  G.  M. 

Neivspaper  Reporting  and  Correspondence 


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McCuLLOGH,  ERNEST 

Engineering  as  a  Vocation 
The  opinions  of  a  successful  engineer. 

McNAUGHT,  M.   S. 

Training  in  Courtesy 
For  use  among  teachers  of  elementary  schools. 

MAXWELL,  WILLIAM 

The- Training  of  a  Salesman 

Written  b}^  the  vice-president  of  the  Thomas  Edison 
Company. 

MERTON,  H.  W. 

How  to  Choose  the  Right  Vocation 
A  series  of  personal  tests  are  intended  to  guide  one 
toward  the  work  suited  to  his  native  capacity.    The  sys- 
tem is  elaborate,  covering  fourteen  hundred  vocations. 

MINER,  G.  W.  AND  ELWELL,  H.  C. 

Principles  of  Bookkeeping:  brief  course, 
illustrating  the  direct  method  of  closing 
the  ledger 

Principles  of  Bookkeeping;  complete  course, 
illustrating  the  journal  method  of  closing 
the  ledger 

A  new  and  exact  study,  useful  for  office  managers  and 
executives. 

Moody 's  Manual  of  Railroad  and  Corporation 

Securities 

An  annual  guide  to  the  investment  values  of  foreign 
and  domestic  stocks,  including  "  Railroads, "  "  Public 
Utilities,"  and  "Industrials." 


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MOORE,  J.  H.  AND  MINER,  G.  W. 

Accounting  and  Business  Practice 
For  use  in  all  schools  where  bookkeeping  is  taught, 
and  also  a  useful  general  guide  book. 

MORELY,  L.   H.  AND  POWELL,  S.  H. 

1600  Business  Books 

\  selected  bibliography  of  the  standard  works  on  all 
kinds  of  business  enterprise ;  new  and  authoritative. 

NEWMAN,  JOHN  HENRY 

Idea  of  a  University 

A  monument  of  English  prose,  remarkable  too  for  its 
ample  concept  of  true  culture.  An  essential  book  for  all 
persons  concerned  with  higher  education. 

NEYSTROM,  P.  H. 

Retail  Selling  and  Store  Management 
Considers  small  points  in  handling  customers,  the  de- 
vices of  modern  advertising  campaigns,  and  the  prin- 
ciples of  organization. 

PEABODY,  FRANCIS  G. 

The  Religion  of  an  Educated  Man 

A  book  of  counsel  to  teachers. 

"One  is  not  a  teacher  except  he  kindle,  waken,  com- 
municate the  contagion  of  personality,  show  the  way  of 
the  spirit  of  truth;  but  he  who  is  thus  a  teacher  is  also 
a  teacher  of  religion. ' ' 

POOLE,   G.   W.   AND  BUZZELL,   J.   J. 

Letters  That  Make  Good 

Actual  reproduction  of  successful  business  conv- 
spondence.  These,  with  the  explanatory  text,  will  de- 


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velop  taste  as  well  as  a  knowledge  of  the  principles  in- 
volved. 

PRATT,  SERENO  S. 

The  Work  of  Wall  Street 

1 '  An  account  of  the  functions,  methods,  and  history  of 
the  New  York  money  and  stock  markets.'* 

Ross,  CHAKLES  G. 

The  Writing  of  News 

SCOTT,  W.  D. 

Influencing  Men  in  Business:  the  Psychology 

of  Argument  and  Suggestion 
A  general  presentation  of  the  commercial  values  in 
psychology. 

The  Psychology  of  Advertising 
A  simple  exposition  of  the  principles  of  psychology 
in  their  relation  to  successful  advertising. 

SELFRIDGE,  H.  G. 

The  Romance  of  Commerce 

A  new  and  stirring  story  of  sea  trading.     The  author 
is  a  highly  successful  merchant. 

SHUMAN,  E.  L. 

Practical  Journalism 

SMITH,  WM.  C. 

The  Business  of  Farming 
A  general  survey  of  all  phases  of  country  living. 


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SULLIVAN,  J.  J. 

American  Business  Law 

THORP,  F.  H. 

Outlines  of  Industrial  Chemistry 

WEAVER,  E.  W. 

Vocations  for  Girls 

WHITE,  HORACE 

Money  and  Banking.    Illustrated  Toy  Ameri- 
can History 

The  World  War 

BARBUSSE,  HENRI 
Under  Fire 

English  version  of  a  poilu's  story  of  trench  warfare. 
This  was  the  first  personal  history  of  the  World  "War  to 
draw  universal  attention. 

BOND,  A.  E. 

Inventions  of  the  Great  War 

Popular  material,  well  Illustrated ;  deals  with  modern 
$runs,  airplanes,  submarine  devices,  and  modes  of  land 
warfare. 

BORDEAUX,  HENRY 

Georges  Guynemer 
The  life  of  France's  premier  ace. 


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CLARK,  GEORGE  HERBERT  (editor) 
A  Treasury  of  War  Poetry 

COBB,  IRWIN 

The  Glory  of  the  Coming 

Humorous  and  pathetic  incidents  from  the  American 
front  in  France.  The  book  has  historical  value  for  its 
record  of  the  human  side  of  our  campaigns. 

COLLINS,  FRANCIS  A. 

Naval  Heroes 
Present-day  stories  of  American  fighting  ships. 

DAVIS,  RICHARD  HARDING 

With  the  Allies 
An  account  of  the  early  stages  of  land  fighting. 

DAWSON,  LIEUT.  CONINGSBY 

Living  Bayonets 

Letters  home  during  the  closing  campaigns,  by  one  of 
the  most  inspirational  writers  on  material  and  spiritual 
facts  of  soldiering.  His  earlier  book,  Carry  On,  is 
similar  in  form  and  content. 

DUHAMEL,  GEORGE 

Civilization 

An  ironic  title  for  stories  and  sketches  of  French  sol- 
diers at  the  front.  The  original,  in  French,  won  the  1918 
Gondicourt  Prize  for  fiction. 

FISHER,  DOROTHY  CANFIELD 
Home  Fires  in  France 

These  short  stories  based  on  fact  rank  very  high  as 
realistic  pictures  of  war  time  behind  the  lines. 


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GALSWORTHY,  JOHN 
Another  Sheaf 

Essays  on  artistic  and  material  reconstruction  in  days 
to  come. 

GERARD,  JAMES  W. 

My  Four  Years  in  Germany 
Our  ambassador's  story  is  unique  among  books  on  the 
personal  and  political  groundwork  of  German  militarism. 

GIBBONS,  FLOYD 

"And  They  Thought  We  Wouldn't  Fight" 
The  living  narrative  of  a  correspondent  who  went. 

GIBBONS,  H.  A. 

The  New  Map  of  Europe 

HALL,  NORMAN 

High  Adventure 
An  American  aviator's  record. 

HAN  KEY,  DONALD 

A  Student  in  Arms 

HAY,  IAN 

The  First  Hundred  Thousand 
A  personal  experience  narrative  that  is  vivid  and  yet 
truthful,  always  hopeful  and  optimistic,  in  no  part  boast- 
ful or  vain-glorious. 

HILL,  DAVID  JAYNE 

Impressions  of  the  Kaiser 

Based    on    observations    extending    over    twenty-five 
years.     The  study  of  personality  continues  through  the 


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first  half;  the  second  is  a  fair-minded  charge  of  blame 
for  beginning  the  war. 

HUARD,  BARONESS  (FRANCES  WILSON) 

My  Home  in  the  Field  of  Honour 
An  excellent  view  of  the  sweeping  devastation  laid  on 
northern  France  by  the  German  armies  and  also  a  con- 
vincing statement  of  the  license  used  in  their  treatment 
of  property  and  persons. 

HYNDMAN,  H.  M. 
Clemenceau 

Written  by  a  personal  friend  who  is  a  leader  among- 
English  socialists.  The  book  is  partly  an  account  of  the 
frustration  of  German  war  plots  in  France. 

IBANEZ,  VICENTE  BLASCO 

The  Four  Horsemen  of  the  Apocalypse 
A  great  war  novel,  presenting  an  interpretation  of 
national  temperaments  and  a  wondrous  panorama  of 
war  activities.  It  has  been  translated  from  Spanish  into 
all  modern  languages.  His  Marc  Nostrum  is  a  story  of 
German  war-time  machinations  in  Spain. 

JELLICOE,  ADMIRAL  VISCOUNT 

The  Grand  Fleet:  1914-1916 

The  authoritative  account  of  British  naval  operations 
in  the  North  Sea.  Bluntly  critical  of  allied  policies  and 
self-justifying  in  its  story  of  the  Battle  of  Jutland,  this 
book  will  be  constantly  useful  in  the  study  of  naval 
warfare. 

JONES,  J.  P.  AND  HOLLISTER,  P.  M. 

The  German  Secret  Service  in  America,  1914- 
1918 


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KELLOGG,  VERNON 

Headquarters  Niyli  I  s 

A  tract  rather  than  a  book.  It  shows  precisely  why 
our  charitable  agents  in  Belgium  lost  all  feeling  of 
neutrality  toward  the  German  military  governors. 


KEYNES,  JOHN  MAYNARD 

The  Economic  Consequences  of  the  Peace 

The  representative  of  the  British  Treasury  at  the 
Peace  Conference  gives  a  photographic  view  of  the  Coun- 
cil of  Four  at  work  as  well  as  a  prophetic  warning 
regarding  the  economic  evils  of  the  Versailles  Treaty. 

KIRKLAND,  WINIFRED 

Old  Truths  and  Neiv  Facts 

On  Christian  thought  as  affected  by  the  World  War, 
with  quotations  from  men  back  from  the  front  line. 

LAKE,  SIMON 

The  Submarine  in  War  and  Peace 

The  historical  narratives  of  a  famous  inventor  who  has 
given  a  lifetime  of  study  to  the  difficulties  of  submarine 
navigation. 

MASEFIELD,  JOHN 
Gallipoli 
The  Old  Front  Line 

Two  short  sketches  of  major  British  operations  in  the 
East  and  on  the  Western  Front ;  prepared  under  official 
sanction. 


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MORGENTHAU,  HENRY 

Ambassador  Morgenthau's  Story 

Those  too  preoccupied  with  events  of  the  Western 
Front  to  have  read  this  work  in  serial  form,  will  find 
herein  the  truth  regarding  Turkish  atrocities  in  the  Near 
East. 

NOTES,  A. 

Open  Boats 

PAINE,  E. 

The  Fighting  Fleets 

PALMER,  FREDERICK 

America  in  France 

The  story  of  a  trained  observer  who  crossed  to  France 
with  General  Pershing  and  stayed  until  the  war  was 
over.  This  volume  covers  all  except  the  closing  events 
of  1918. 

Our  Greatest  Battle 

This  volume  completes  Palmer's  account  of  the  Amer- 
ican Expeditionary  Force  in  France,  thus  far  the  only 
one  published  by  a  trained  writer  continuously  in  contact 
with  events. 

My  Year  of  the  Great  War 
My  Second  Year  of  the  War 

RINEHART,  MARY  ROBERTS 

The  Amazing  Interlude 

A  novel  relating  the  experiences  of  Sara  Lee,  native 
of  a  Pennsylvania  village,  as  a  war  worker  in  Belgium. 


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KOOSEVELT,  THEODORE 

The  Great  Adventure 

Printed  only  a  week  before  the  armistice,  this  book 
shows  in  clear  terms  Roosevelt's  feelings  regarding  the 
World  War. 

ROSE,  J.  H. 

Origins  of  the  War 

SCOTT,  JAMES  BROWN  (editor) 

President  Wilson's  Foreign  Policy 
The  President's  messages  and  addresses  of  the  war 
period. 

SEEGER,  ALAN 

Letters  and  Diary 

Work  of  a  young  American  poet  well  remembered  for 
his  letters  home  and  a  few  noble  poems.  The  Diary  is 
his  record  of  field  service  under  the  British  flag.  As 
for  his  poems  they  have  sold  to  a  total  of  over  thirty 
thousand  copies  within  two  years. 

SEYMOUR,  CHARLES 

The   Diplomatic   Background    of    the    War, 
1870-1914 

SHAW,  ALBERT  (editor) 

President   Wilson's   State  Papers   and  Ad- 
dresses 

SIMONDS,  FRANK 

The  World  War 

The  most  extensive  history  thus  far  offered  to  Amer- 
ican readers. 


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STOBART,  MABEL  ANNIE 

War  and  Women;  from  Experiences  in  the 

Balkans  and  Elsewhere 

The  author  had  charge  of  a  large  hospital  convoy  corps 
attached  to  the  retreating  armies  of  Serbia.  Her  rank 
as  major  was  granted  in  recognition  of  the  heroism  de- 
scribed in  this  book. 

VANDERLIP,  FRANK  A. 

What  Happened  to  Europe 

Published  in  1919,  an  estimate  of  post-war  conditions 
abroad ;  commerce  and  finance  are  given  first  place  in  this 
survey. 

WHITE,  WILLIAM  ALLEN 

The  Martial  Adventures  of  Henry  and  Me 
The  author  and  a  comrade  pass  through  experiences 
that  rival  in  genuine  humor  any  other  literature  of  the 
war.    The  book  has  its  tragic  side  too,  with  much  infor- 
mation regarding  wartime  living  in  Prance. 

WHITLOCK,  BRAND 

Belgium 

Our  Minister  to  Belgium  was  in  a  position  to  collect 
data  and  documents  of  unimpeachable  truth  regarding 
the  ravaging  of  that  indomitable  nation.  His  brilliant 
narrative  is  history. 

Further  Reading  in  Fiction 

BAZIN,  RENE 
The  Nun 

An  attempt  to  prove  through  fiction  the  injustice 
of  church  disestablishment  in  France. 


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BORROW,  GEORGE 

The  Bible  in  Spain;  or,  the  Journeys,  Ad- 
ventures, and  Imprisonments  of  an  Eng- 
lishman in  an  Attempt  to  Circulate  the 
Scriptures  in  the  Peninsula 

Travels  in  Spain  from  1835  to  1839  brought  Borrow 
into  contact  with  all  phases  of  the  national  life.  His 
mingled  fiction  and  fact  has  exquisite  descriptive  pas- 
sages, many  odd  characters,  and  likewise  a  full  com- 
mentary on  Spanish  customs.  Augustine  Birrell  wrote, 
1 1  Nobocty  can  sit  down  to  read  Borrow 's  books  without  as 
completely  forgetting  himself  as  if  he  were  a  boy  in  the 
forest  with  Gnrth  and  Wamba." 

BRIEUX,  EUGENE 
.     The  Red  Robe 

A  story  of  human  feelings  when  subjected  to  the  stern- 
ness of  French  legal  processes. 

CRAWFORD,  FRANCIS  MARION 
Saracinesca 
Sant  'Ilario 
Don  Ot'sino 

Through  this  group  of  novels  regarding  a  noble  Italian 
family  the  author  develops  a  study  of  the  Papal  struggle 
for  temporal  power  between  1865  and  1887. 

DE  MORGAN,  WILLIAM 

Joseph  Vance:  an  Ill-Written  Autobiography 

A  novel  in  the  vein  of  Pickwick  Papers,  being  a  series 
of  quaint  character  sketches  held  together  by  the  life 
story  of  Joseph.  The  pictures  of  slum  life  in  London 
are  drawn  with  sympathetic  familiarity. 


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DICKENS,  CHARLES 
Bleak  House 

This  story  has  more  careful  plot  structure  than  is 
commonly  found  in  Dickens  and  likewise  a  heroine  of 
extraordinary  power.  It  will  interest  anew  those  readers 
who  have  learned  by  rote  his  popular  methods  of  charac- 
terization and  plotting.  Part  of  the  story  is  a  revelation 
of  the  great  injustices  wrought  by  keeping  cases  in  the 
old  Court  of  Chancery.  Apart  from  this  material  is  a 
complicated  romance  unusual  for  Dickens  because  of  its 
peculiar  mystery  elements.  There  are  several  typical 
Dickens  characters,  clever  satire,  and  abundant  humor. 

DOSTOEVSKI,  FEODOR 

Crime  and  Punishment 

Pictures  the  lowest  abysses  of  life  in  Petrograd  and 
expresses  compassionate  feeling  for  the  victims  of  a 
vicious  social  system.  Tragic  realism  has  a  highwater 
mark  in  the  story  of  criminal  resolve  and  final  atone- 
ment for  sin. 

DUMAS,  ALEXANDRE 

The  Black  Tulip 

A  romance  of  Holland  in  the  days  of  William  of 
Orange. 

FIELDING,  HENRY 

The  Adventures  of  Joseph  Andrews 
Important  in  the  history  of  fiction  for  its  satire  on 
Richardson's  Pamela;  also  necessary  to  an  understand- 
ing of  Fielding 's  ideas  of  fiction. 

FLAUBERT,  GUSTAVE 

Madame  Bovary 
This   masterpiece   of   French   fiction   deals   with  the 


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gradual  degeneration  of  a  sentimental  woman.  The 
unattractive  plot  is  raised  to  high  place  by  the  fine 
artistry;  exact  phrases  and  words  precisely  chosen  give 
unsurpassed  effects  of  reality.  Fatalistic  in  its  phil- 
osophy of  life ;  a  story  that  teaches  the  inevitable  sorrow 
following  the  breaking  of  moral  law. 

FRANCE,  ANATOLE  (JACQUES  ANATOLE  THIBAULT) 

The  Crime  of  Sylvester  Bonna/rd 
A   philosophical   old   sentimentalist   who   derives   his 
amusement  from  books,  good  food,  and  few  friends,  is 
the  hero.    His  ' '  crime ' '  is  merely  a  ruse  whereby  he  cap- 
tures the  daughter  of  a  former  sweetheart. 

GISSING,  GEORGE 

The  New  Grub  Street 

Typical  of  Gissing's  fiction  in  its  hopeless,  uninspired 
feeling  regarding  the  lot  of  the  poor  classes.  Alfred 
Yule  is  a  true  character,  though  pedantic  and  ill-starred. 
The  book  reflects  something  of  the  author's  visit  to 
America. 

GOETHE,  JOHANN  WOLFGANG  vox 

Wilhelm  Meister 

An  elaborate  commentary  on  the  culture  and  ideals 
of  humanity  by  means  of  an  advancing  record  of  Wil- 
helm 's  experiences  from  youth  to  manhood.  Its  varied 
contents  tend  toward  the  conclusion  that  our  natural 
endowments  are  the  source  of  inspiration  toward  an 
enthusiastic  life  activity. 

HEWLETT,  MAURICE 

New  Canterbury  Tales 

Lovers  of  medieval  life  will  cherish  these  stories  cast 
in  the  mould  of  the  fifteenth  century,  strong  in  love 
interest  and  in  physical  action.  Like  many  of  Hewlett's 


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stories,  they  show  his  full  understanding  of  the  Renais- 
sance period. 

LAGERLOF,  SELMA 

Jerusalem 

The  first  part  relates  the  family  history  of  the 
Ingmarssons  in  saga  folk-style;  the  second  deals  with 
the  life  of  an  idealistic  community  established  in  Jerusa- 
lem. Poetic  prose  of  high  quality  and  of  philosophic 
power  gave  this  book  an  immediate  popularity. 

LOTI,  PlERKE   (LOUIS  MARIE  JuLIEN  VlAUD) 

An  Iceland  Fisherman 

The  love  and  brief  happiness  of  a  Breton  girl  and 
her  husband,  who  is  lost  in  the  stormy  Iceland  seas,  sym- 
bolize the  transitoriness  of  human  joys  and  the  inexor- 
able nature  of  fate.  Rhythmic  prose  of  poetic  strain 
appears  in  his  description  of  the  sea. 

MACKENZIE,  HENRY 

The  Man  of  Feeling 

A  short  story  illustrating  how  psychological  analysis 
of  feelings  began  its  course  in  English  fiction.  Inter- 
esting chiefly  as  one  element  of  the  Romantic  Movement. 

MARGUERITTE,  PAUL 

Jouir 

A  novel  depicting  the  happiness  of  French  life  at  the 
Mediterranean  resorts  shortly  before  the  World  War; 
widely  read  for  its  pictures  of  frivolities  that  live  today 
only  in  recollection. 

MOORE,  GEORGE 

Esther  Waters 
A  study  of  the  English  servant  class,  all  the  house- 


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hold  of  a  horse-racing  squire  being  involved  in  the  ruin 
of  his  fortune.  Esther,  the  scullery-maid,  becomes  a 
victim  of  circumstance  much  after  the  manner  of  Hardy 's 
Tess,  but  with  a  " Pamela  reward." 

ROLLAND,  ROMAIN 

Jean  Christophre 

An  expansive  study  of  the  development  of  a  musical 
genius.  All  the  surrounding  characters  give  point  to  the 
progressive  commentary  on  life  and  society  that  accom- 
panies this  life  history.  A  work  exalting  the  power  of 
idealism. 

ROUSSEAU,  JEAN  JACQUES 

Julia;  or,  The  New  Heloise 

An  historic  literary  document. 

The  story  of  a  humble  lover  and  of  his  mental  agonies 
following  the  marriage  of  the  girl  of  rank  to  a  man  of 
her  own  station;  much  sentimental  analysis  of  feeling, 
but  also  full  of  genuine  pathos.  In  letter  form ;  largely 
autobiographical. 

SAND,  GEORGE  (ARMANDINE  DUPIN) 

The  Devil's  Pool 

A  simple  love  story  of  rural  France.  Its  idyllic 
pictures  are  quite  unlike  her  tales  of  passion  or  those  of 
social  and  political  import.  Those  phases  of  her  work  are 
found  in  Consuelo  and  The  Journeyman  Joiner. 

STERNE,  LAURENCE 

The  Life  and  Opinions  of  Tristram  Shandy, 

Gent. 

Among  the  early  realistic  novels  of  English  fiction;  a 
gossipy,  satiric  commentary  upon  human  nature  through 
use  of  type  characters.  Throughout  are  marks  of  Sterne 's 
keen  wit  and  active  observation  of  human  nature. 


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TOLSTOI,  COUNT  LEO 
Anna  Karenina 

A  double-stranded  study  of  modern  life.  The  tragic 
ending  of  the  main  narrative  concludes  a  commentary  on 
unsympathetic  marriage  relations;  Levin's  story  ex- 
presses Tolstoi's  own  turning  from  the  injustices  of  life 
to  a  happy  rule  of  quiet  obedience  to  God. 

War  and  Peace 

A  novel  that  is  the  life  history  of  a  nation  during  a 
crisis  in  her  existence.  A  tremendous  multitude  of  im- 
pressions of  Russian  life  at  the  time  of  the  Napoleonic 
wars  gives  a  panorama  of  her  private  and  public  affairs, 
in  town  and  country,  throughout  all  classes  of  society. 

TURGENEV,  IVAN 

Fathers  and  Children 

A  novel  dealing  with  the  jarring  breaks  in  the  Russian 
institution  of  the  family  caused  by  force  of  new  ideas; 
a  direct  attack  upon  the  aggressive  nihilism  of  the  nine- 
teenth century. 

ZOLA,  EMILE 

Work 

A  provincial  town  in  France  is  made  the  scene  for 
studying  capitalism  and  the  factory  system  under  the 
worst  conditions.  Zola's  fine  but  often  depressing  real- 
ism is  here  relieved  by  an  ideal  counterpart  in  the  story 
of  a  successful  cooperative  factory. 


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AESCHYLUS 

Agamemnon 

Choephoroe 

Eumenides 

\  glowing  imasre  of  Greek  philosophy  in  three 
tragedies  dealing  with  the  house  of  Atreus. 

Persae 

Classical  tragedy  on  the  heroic  period  of  the  Persian 
Wars. 

ARISTOPHANES 
Birds 
Frogs 
Specimens  of  early  comedy. 

EURIPIDES 

Iphigenia  in  Tan  r is 

Classical  tragedy;  influential  in  formation  of  Greek 
and  Roman  theories  of  drama. 

SOPHOCLES 

Antigone;  Oedipus  Rex 

Classical  tragedy ;  the  perfection  of  Athenian  patriotic 
and  mystical  expression. 

SENECA 

Tragedies 

His  ten  great  tragedies  were  the  bridge  between  Greek 
drama  and  that  of  the  Middle  Ages,  as  well  as  being  influ- 
ential throughout  Europe  until  the  seventeenth  century. 


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PLAUTUS  AND  TERENCE 

Comedies 

Popular  Roman  comedies,  historically  important  by 
reason  of  their  comic  dialogue  and  character  types. 
These  two  authors  stood  in  the  same  relation  to  later 
comedy  as  Seneca  to  later  tragedy. 

ARIOSTO,  LUDOVICO 

/  Suppositi 

A  specimen  of  the  complicated  intriguing  found  in 
early  Italian  comedy. 

TASSO,  TORQUATO 

A  min  ta 

An  early  pastoral  drama  that  influenced  English  liter- 
ature of  the  sixteenth  century  and,  more  extensively 
still,  the  literatures  of  continental  Europe. 

LOPE  DE  VEGA 

The  Steel  Water  of  Madrid 

The  New  World 

Comedies  reflecting  the  national  greatness  of  the 
Spain  of  his  day,  the  first  part  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury. 

CALDERON,  PEDRO 

El  Divino  Orfeo 

' '  To  know  Calderon  is  to  know  the  mind  of  the  Spain 
of  the  seventeenth  century ;  to  know  Cervantes  is  to  know 
its  heart." 

JODELLE,  ETIENNE 

CUopatre  Captive 
Early  French  tragedy,  cast  in  the  Senecan  tradition. 


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CORNEILLE,  PIERRE 

Cid 

Early  French  tragedy  of  the  classical  school.  The 
Spanish  original  of  the  story  gained  world  fame  through 
various  channels;  in  Corneille's  work  it  marked  the  be- 
ginning of  modern  French  drama. 

RACINE,  JEAN 
Berenice 

The  tragic  idyl  of  the  Jewish  maiden  forsaken  by  her 
lover  Titus;  an  example  of  French  classical  tragedy  at 
its  height  during  the  seventeenth  century. 

VOLTAIRE  (FRANCOIS  MARIE  AROUET) 
Brutus 

After  Zaire,  his  greatest  dramatic  triumph;  note- 
worthy as  a  proof  of  Shakspere's  influence.  Though 
drama  was  but  one  of  Voltaire 's  multitudinous  interests, 
he  exerted  on  French  tragedy  an  influence  sufficient  to 
reaffirm  the  century-old  classical  tenets  of  Racine  and 
Corneille. 

MOLIERE  (JEAN  BAPTISTE  POQUELIN) 
Comedies 

The  master  of  French  comedy  in  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury. 

All  the  comedies  of  Moliere  had  profound  influence  on 
English  drama  and  upon  that  of  France.  They  are 
entirely  enjoyable  still  and  may  be  had  in  various  trans- 
lations. 

Everyman 

A  fine  example  of  the  morality  play,  an  early  type  in 
England  and  on  the  Continent.  This  play  depicts 
through  allegory  the  search  of  mankind  for  sustain  in  «r 
friendship  as  he,  draws  near  the  close  of  life. 


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The  Second  Shepherds'  Play 

A  comic  piece  from  one  of  the  great  English  cycles; 
native  humor  and  original  situations  add  much  to  the 
forms  of  the  older  religious  drama,  making  this  a  lively 
secular  play  rather  than  a  means  to  devotion. 

Gammer  Gurton's  Needle 

Among  the  first  frankly  secular  English  comedies. 

LYLY,  JOHN 

Endymion,  the  Man  in  the  Moon 

Illustrates  one  of  the  art  forms  of  drama  affecting 
Shakspere  and  his  contemporaries.  An  allegory  of  life 
at  Queen  Elizabeth 's  court ;  much  use  of  mythology. 

KYD,  THOMAS 

The  Spanish  Tragedy;  or,  Hieronimo  Is  Mad 

Again 

A  precursor  of  the  tragic  type  displaying  its  formulae 
best  in  Hamlet ;  the  most  popular  of  all  Elizabethan 
tragedies.  Staged  before  Shakspere 's  plays. 

MARLOWE,  CHRISTOPHER 

Edivard  II 

Perhaps  the  finest  historical  play,  outside  of  Shaks- 
pere's  works,  that  was  written  during  the  reign  of 
Elizabeth. 

PEELE,  GEORGE 

David  and  Bethsabe 

A  precursor  of  Shakspere  who  handled  the  Bible  story 
in  a  spirit  of  sensuous  romanticism,  using  pastoral  in- 
vention and  blank  verse  of  great  beauty. 


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GREENE,  ROBERT 

Friar  Bacon  and  Friar  Bung  ay 
The  most  popular  play  of  this  important  forerunner 
of  Shakspere.    A  sketch  of  old  English  life  is  joined  to 
a  love  story  of  strong  appeal,  the  entire  play  being  a 
burlesque  of  Marlowe's  Doctor  Faustus. 

JONSON,  BEN 

Every  Man  in  His  Humour 
Se janus  His  Fall 

These  two  plays  illustrate  Jonson's  contributions  of 
distinctive  characterization  according  to  dominant  traits 
and  his  sober  care  in  drafting  classical  tragedy. 

FLETCHER,  JOHN 

The  Faithful  Shepherdess 

Among  the  finest  predecessors  of  Shakspere 's  romantic 
plays.  Its  stage  career  was  not  unusual,  but  the  lyric 
and  descriptive  passages  give  it  high  rank  in  English 
literature. 

HEYWOOD,  THOMAS 

A  Woman  Killed  with  Kindness 
Domestic  tragedy;  significant  because  based  on  uni- 
versal human  passions,  regardless  of  rank  or  station  of 
the  actors. 

WEBSTER,  JOHN 

The  Duchess  of  Malfi 

Below  other  '  *  revenge ' '  tragedies  of  Elizabethan  times 
in  plot,  but  of  compelling  power  in  its  psychological 
analysis  of  passion.  In  its  display  of  abnormal  wicked- 
ness the  play  typifies  the  later  extremes  of  the  group 
following  Beaumont  and  Fletcher. 


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FORD,  JOHN 

The  Broken  Heart 

An  expression  of  the  poetic  but  decadent  tragedy 
written  during  the  years  following  Shakspere's  death. 

DRYDEN,  JOHN 

All  for  Love 

This  re-working  of  Shakspere's  Antony  and  Cleopatra 
shows  the  classical  formulae  of  Restoration  tragedy  and 
also  has  some  of  Dryden's  most  poetic  descriptive 
passages. 

OTWAY,  THOMAS 

Venice  Preserved 

An  eighteenth-century  tragedy  reviving  successfully 
many  Elizabethan  traditions. 

CONGREVE,  WILLIAM 

The  Way  of  the  World 

Modern  high  comedy  of  England  begins  with  this 
vivacious,  frankly  un-moral  imitation  of  the  French  type. 
This  and  Love  for  Love  made  Congreve  the  admired 
craftman  in  this  kind  until  the  days  of  Sheridan. 

HOWE,  NICHOLAS 
Jane  Shore 

Well-written  tragedy  reverting,  like  Otway's  work,  to 
the  themes  and  traditions  of  Elizabethan  England. 

LILLO,  JOHN 

The  London  Merchant;  or,  The  History  of 

George  Barnwell 

A  domestic  tragedy  of  the  mid-eighteenth  century  that 
brought  tradesmen  and  citizens  upon  the  boards  in  con- 


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trust  to  the  nobility  used  restrictedly  by  tragedians  of 
the  classical  tradition. 

GAY,  JOHN 

The  Beggar's  Opera 

Best  described  as  a  probable  forerunner  of  modern 
comic  opera ;  full  of  lively  songs  and  having  many  marks 
of  contemporary  social  history. 

GOLDSMITH,  OLIVER 

She  Stoops  to  Conquer 

Homely,  good-natured  comedy  ranking  with  Sheridan's 
School  for  Scandal  as  the  most  popular  dramatic  work 
of  the  eighteenth  century. 

SHERIDAN,  RICHARD  BRINSLEY 

The  Rivals 

The  School  for  Scandal 

The  two  eighteenth  century  high  comedies  universally 
accepted  as  of  first  rank  in  point  of  brilliance  and  grace 

SHELLEY,  PERCY  BYSSHE 

The  Cenci 

A  poetic  drama  using  the  Cenci  story  to  point  out  the 
operation  of  blind  religious  faith  as  a  cloak  for  the  most 
monstrous  human  sin. 


Collections 

BOYXTON,  PERCY  H. 

American  Poeinj 
A  new  historical  anthology,  with  notes  of  much  value. 


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BRONSON,  WALTER  C. 

American  Prose,  1607-1865 

Palgrave's  Golden  Treasury 
A  standard  anthology  of  lyric  poetry. 

QUILLER-COUCH,   SlR  ARTHUR   T. 

The  Oxford  Book  of  English  Verse 
Historical  method;  well  edited  and  finely  printed. 

MANLY,  JOHN  M. 

English  Prose  and  Poetry 

Historical  method;  unusually  fine  critical  notes  make 
this  the  best  volume  for  private  study  of  English 
literature. 

PAGE,  CURTIS  H. 

British  Poets  of  the  Nineteenth  Century 
The  Chief  American  Poets 

The  standard  American  anthologies,  containing  much 
material  from  all  the  best -known  poets  of  the  century. 
Xo  notes. 

RlTTENHOUSE,   JESSIE    B. 

The  Second  Book  of  American  Verse 
This  small  collection  and  its  predecessor  contain  later 
poems  than  appear  in  the  Manly  or  Page  collections. 
They  are  excellent  books  for  general  reading,  but  have 
small  value  for  the  student. 


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The  following  books  contain  representative  plays  from 
English,  American,  and  modern  European  drama. 
Twenty  or  more  plays  are  in  each  volume,  so  that  they 
give  far  more  than  can  be  got  for  the  same  prices  in 
separate  volumes.  All  are  well  edited ;  some  have  notes 
on  the  plays  and  their  authors. 

MANLY,  JOHN  M. 

P re-Shakespearian  Drama,  2  vols. 

NIELSEN,  WILLIAM  A. 

Chief  Elizabethan  Dramatists 

STEVENS,  DAVID  H. 

Types  of  English  Drama:  1660  to  1780 

DICKINSON,  T.  H. 

Chief  Contemporary  Dramatists 

MATTHEWS,  BRANDER 

The  Chief  European  Dramatists 

QUINN,  A. 

Representative  American  Plays 

MOSES,  M.  J. 

Representative    British    Dramas,    Victorian 

and  Modern 
Representative  Plays  by  American  Dramatists 


INDEX  OF  TITLES 

Abraham  Lincoln,  the  Man  of  the  People   (Hapgood) 117 

Abroad  at  Home  (Street) 108 

Accounting  and  Business  Practice  (Moore) 183 

Across  the  Plains   (Stevenson) 133 

Adam  Bede  (Eliot)    122 

Adrift  on  an  Ice  Pan  ( Grenfell ) 78 

Adventures  in  Beaver  Stream  Camp   (Dugmore)    66 

Adventures  of  Ann,  The   (Wilkins) 105 

Adventures  of  Huckleberry  Finn,  The  (Twain) 74 

Adventures  of  Joseph  Andrews,  The  (Fielding) 194 

Adventures  of  Pinocchio  (Lorenzini)   49 

Adventures  of  Robinson  Crusoe,  The   (Defoe) 47 

Adventures  of  Sherlock  Holmes,  The  (Doyle) 98 

Adventures  of  Tom  Sawyer,  The  (Twain) 74 

Adventures  of  Ulysses,  The   (Lamb) 78 

yEgean   Days    (Manatt)     177 

Aesop's  Fables   39 

African  Game  Trails   (Roosevelt) 135 

Agamemnon   (Aeschylus)    199 

Alfred  the  Great  (Hughes)   61 

Alhambra,   The    (Irving)    132 

Alice's  Adventures  in  Wonderland  and  Through  the  Look- 

ing-Glass  (Carroll )    46 

All  About  Aircraft  (Simmonds) 112 

All  for  Love   (Dryden) 204 

All  Sorts  and  Conditions  of  Men   (Besant) 147 

Along  French  Byways  (Johnson) 135 

Amateur  Carpenter,  The   ( Verrill ) 112 

Amateur  Cracksman.  The   (Hornung) 100 

Amazing  Argentine,  The   (Fraser) 174 

Amazing  Interlude,  The  (Rinehart) 190 

Ambassador  Morganthau's  Story  (Morganthau)    190 

America  in  France   (Palmer) 190 

American,  The   (James)    150 

American  Adventures  (Street) 108 

American  Animal  Life   (Deming) 52 

American    Animals     (Stone) 83 

American  Book  of  Golden  Deeds,  An  (Baldwin) 59 

American    Boy's    Book    of    Signs,    Signals,    and    Symbols 

(Beard)    84 

209 


210  INDEX 

American  Boys'  Engineering  Book,  The  (Bond) ...Ill 

American  Business  Law   (Sullivan) 185 

American  Commonwealth,  The    (Bryce) 168 

American  Family,  An  (Webster) 104 

American  Girl's  Handy  Book,  The  (Beard) 84 

American  Hero  Stories  (Tappan) 80 

American  Idyll,  An  (Parker)    118 

American  Patriotic  Prose  and  Verse  (Stevens) 79 

American  Poetry   (Boynton) 205 

American  Prose   (Bronson) 206 

Aminta  (Tasso)    200 

Among  English  Hedgerows  (Johnson) 135 

Among  My  Books   (Lowell) 132 

Amos  Judd    (Mitchell) 101 

Ancient  Man  (Van  Loon) 80 

"  And  They  Thought  We  Wouldn't  Fight"  (Gibbons) 187 

Anna  Karenina  (Tolstoi) 198 

Anne  of  Green  Gables   (Montgomery)    101 

Another  Sheaf   (Galsworthy) 159,  187 

Anthology  of  Mother  Verse,  An   (Wiggin)    45 

Antigone;  Oedipus  Rex  (Sophocles) 199 

Antiquary,  The    ( Scott) 102 

Apologia  pro  vita  sua  (Newman) 145 

Appreciations   (Pater)    160 

Arabella  and  Araminta  Stories   (^mith) 44 

Arabian  Nights 40 

Architecture  in  Its  Relation  to  Civilization  (Cram) 160 

Astronomy  with  the  Naked  Eye  (Serviss) 83 

As  You  Like  It  (Shakspere) .' 129 

Australian  Byways   (Duncan) 174 

Authors  at  Home  (Gilder)  . .  , 144 

Autobiography    (Cellini)    143 

Autobiography   (Franklin) 60 

Autobiography  (Gibbon)    144 

Autobiography    (Martineau)     •.  .177 

Autobiography    (Pattison)    : 145 

Autobiography  ( Roosevelt)    119 

Autobiography  and  Letters   (Oliphant) 118 

Aztec-Hunters,  The  (Rolt-Wheeler) 72 


Baby's  Big  Book  of  Pictures  (Collins) 41 

Baby's  Bouquet,  The   (Crane) 41 

Barchester  Towers    (Trollope) 152 

Bartley,  Freshman  Pitcher   (Heylinger) ^  .  .   68 

Baseball:  Individual  Play  and  Team  Play  in  Detail  (Clark)   81 

Battle  of  Baseball,  The   (Claudy) 84 

Beggar's  Opera,  The  (Gay) 205 

Beginning  Right:   How  to  Succeed   (Fowler) 110 


INDEX  211 

Beginnings  of  New  England,  The  (Fiske)    161) 

Belgium   (Oinond)    135 

Belgium  (Whitlock)    192 

Beloved  Vagabond,  The  ( Locke) 126 

Ben  Hur  (Wallace) 104 

Bent  Twig,  The  (Fisher) 99 

Berenice   (Racine)    201 

Bible,  The  English   166 

Bible  in  Spain,  The  (Borrow)    103 

.Bible  Stories  to  Read  and  Tell   (Olcott) 53 

Biography  of  a  Prairie  Girl,  The  (Gates) 92 

Birds  (Aristophanes)    199 

Bird's  Christmas  Carol,  The   (Wiggin)    75 

Black  Beauty    (Sewell) 50 

Black  Tulip,  The   (Dumas)    194 

Blazed  Trail,  The     (White)    105 

Bleak  House  (Dickens) 194 

Bold  Robin  Hood  and  His  Outlaw  Band  (Rhead) 50 

Bonds  and  Stocks   (Babson) 180 

Book  of  a  Naturalist,  The  (Hudson) 81 

Book  of  Art  for  Young  People,  The  (Con way) 109 

Book  of  Electricity,  The   (Collins) 84 

Book  of  Elves  and  Fairies,  The  (Olcott) 50 

Book  of  Fables  and  Folk  Stories,  The  (Scudder) 43 

Book  of  Indoor  and  Outdoor  Games,  The  (Kingsland) 82 

Book  of  Magic,  The  (Collins) 84 

Book  of  Nature  Myths  (Holbrook) 48 

Book  of  Stars,  The   (Collins) 85 

Book  of  the  Motor  Boat,  The  (Verrill) 112 

Book  of  Verses  for  Children   ( Lucas) 49 

Boots  and  Saddles    (Custer) 60 

Bow  of  Orange  Ribbon,  The  (Barr) 64 

Boy  Emigrants,  The   (Brooks) 64 

Boy  Life  on  the  Prairie  (Garland) 67 

Boy  Scout  Entertainments   (Lisle) 85 

Boy  Scouts  of  Berkshire  (Eaton) 66 

Boy  Scouts  of  Woodcraft  Camp   (Burgess) 64 

Boy  Scouts  Year  Book,  The   (Mathiews) 85 

Boys'  Book  of  Chemistry,  The  (Clarke) 84 

Boy's  Book  of  Inventions   (Baker) 83 

Boy's  Book  of  Sports,  The   (Rice) 85 

Boy's  Catlin,  The  (Catlin) 78 

Boys'  Froissart,  The   ( Lanier) 79 

Boys'  Hakluyt,  The  (Bacon) 77 

Boy's  Iliad,  The   (Perry) 79 

Boy's  King  Arthur  ( Lanier) 70 

Boy's  Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln  (Nicolay) 61 

BOYS'  Life  of  Edison,  The   (Meadowcroft) 61 


212  INDEX 

Boy's  Life  of  Theodore  Roosevelt,  The  (Hagerdorn) 92 

Boy's  Odyssey,  The   (Perry) 79 

Boys  of  Other  Countries  (Taylor) 80 

Boy's  Town,  A   (Howells) 169 

British  Empire  in  Pictures,  The  (Barnard) 52 

British  Isles  in  Pictures,  The   (Barnard)    52 

British  Poets  of  the  Nineteenth  Century  (Page) 206 

Broken  Heart,  The  (Ford) 204 

Brutus  (Voltaire)    201 

Buccaneers  and  Pirates  of  Our  Coast  (Stockton) 80 

Bunch  of  Keys,  A   (Johnson) 42 

Burgess  Bird  Book  for  Children,  The  (Burgess) 81 

Buried  Alive  (Bennett)    120 

Burke  (Morley) 118 

Burns  (Carlyle)    143 

Business  Employments   (Allen) 110 

Business  of  Farming,  The  (Smith) 104 

Cabbages  and  Kings  (0.  Henry) 124 

Caesar  and  Cleopatra   (Shaw)    157 

Caleb  West,  Master  Diver  (Smith) 127 

Call  of  the  Wild,  The   (London) 70 

Cambridge  "Apostles,"  The  (Brookfield) 143 

Canada,  the  Empire  of  the  North  ( Laut) 176 

Captain  January  ( Richards) 72 

"Captains  Courageous"    (Kipling) 69 

Careers  of  Danger  and  Daring  (Moffett) 92 

Cathleen-ni-Hoolihan   (Yeats)    158 

Cattle  Ranch  to  College  (Doubleday) 78 

Cenci,  The   (Shelley) 205 

Century  Book  of  Famous  Americans,  The  (Brooks) 59 

Charles  O'Malley,  the  Irish  Dragoon  (Lever) 70 

Chief  American  Poets,  The   (Page)    206 

Chief  Contemporary  Dramatists,  The  (Dickinson) 207 

Chief  Elizabethan  Dramatists,  The  (Nielsen) 207 

Chief  European  Dramatists,  The  (Matthews) 207 

Child's  Garden  of  Verses,  The  (Stevenson) 44 

Children's  Book,  The   (Scudder) 44 

Children's  Book  of  Edinburgh,  The  (Grierson) 53 

Children's  Own  Longfellow,  The  (Longfellow) 75 

Children's  Plays   (Skinner) 76 

Children's  Stories  of  the  Great  Scientists  (Weight) 62 

Chinese  Wonder  Book,  A  (Pitman) 50 

Choephoroe    (Aeschylus) 199 

Choir  Invisible,  The  (Allen) 119 

Choosing  a  Career   (Marden)    Ill 

Cid   (Corneille)    201 

Civil  Government  in  the  United  States  (Fiske) 169 


INDEX  213 

Civilization  (Duhamel)    1  s<; 

Clemenceau  (Hyndman)   144,  188 

Cleopatre  Captive  ( Jodelle)   20O 

Cloister  and  the  Hearth,  The  (Reade) 126 

College  Man  and  the  College  Woman,  The  (Hyde) UK) 

Comedies   (Moliere)    201 

Comedies   (Plautus)    2oo 

Comedies  (Terence)    i'n<» 

Commentary,  A   (Galsworthy) 150 

Complete  Angler,  The   (Walton) •. 133 

Confessions  (Rousseau)   145 

Confessions  (Saint- Augustine) 146 

Conrad  in  Quest  of  His  Youth  (Merrick) 151 

Contemporary  Composers   (Mason) 161 

Cornelia   (Perkins)    71 

Country  Neighbors  (Brown) 121 

Country  Road,  The  (Bronson-Howard) 121 

Courage  of  the  Commonplace,  The  (Andrews)    1)4 

Cowboy  Ballads  (Lomax) 169 

Cozy  Lion,  as  Told  by  Queen  Crosspatch,  The  (Burnett)..  46 

Cranford  and  Other  Tales   (Gaskell) 99 

Crime  and  Punishment  (Dostoevski) 194 

Crime  of  Sylvester  Bonnard,  The  (France) 195 

Crimson  Sweater,  The  (Barbour) 64 

Crisis,  The  (Churchill) 97 

Cruise  of  the  "Cachalot,"  The   (Bullen) 78 

Cruise  of  the  "Shining  Light,"  The  (Duncan) 98 

Culture  and  Anarchy   (Arnold) 158 

Cyrano  de  Bergerac   (Rostand)    157 

Daughter  of  the  Rich  (Waller) 74 

Daughters  of  the  Puritans  (Beach) 59 

David  and  Bethsabe  (Peele) 202 

David  Copperfield    (Dickens) 66 

David  Crockett,  Scout  (Allen) 59 

David  Harum:  A  Story  of  American  Life  (Westcott) 104 

David  Livingstone  (Hughes)    92 

Decline  and  Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire,  The  (Gibbon) 175 

Deephaven   ( Jewett)    125 

Devil's  Pool,  The  (Sand)    U'7 

Diana  of  the  Crossways  ^Meredith) 150 

Diary   (Pepys)    145 

Diplomatic  Background  of  the  War,  The  (Seymour) 191 

Discovery  of  the  Great  West  (Parkman) 170 

Disraeli    (Parker)    157 

Division  and  Reunion  (Wilson) 172 

Dr.  Sevier  (Cable)   147 

Dogs  of  Boytown.  The  (Dyer) 52 


214  INDEX 

Doll's   House,  The    (Ibsen) 156 

Donegal  Fairy  Tales  (Mac  Manus) 49 

Don  Orsino  ( Crawford ) 193 

Don  Quixote  de  la  Mancha  (Cervantes) 96;  147 

Dorothy  Wordsworth    ( Lee)    144 

Dragon  and  the  Raven,  The  (Henty) 68 

Dramatic  Moments  in  American  Diplomacy  (Page) 170 

Duchess  of  Malfi,  The  (Webster) ; 203 

Dune  Country,  The  (Reed) 107 

Dutch  and  Quaker  Colonies  in  America   (Fiske)    169 

Economic  Consequences  of  the  Peace,  The  (Keynes) 189 

Edison:  His  Life  and  Inventions  (Dyer) * 117 

Ednah  and  Her  Brothers    (White)    51 

Education  of  Henry  Adams,  The  (Adams) 168 

Edward  II   (Marlowe) 202 

Egoist,  The  (Meredith)    150 

El  Divino  Orfeo    (Calderon) 200 

Elementary  Mechanical  Drawing  (Weick) 112 

Elements  of  General  Science  (Caldwell) 112 

Emmeline  (Singmaster)   73 

Emmy  Lou,  Her  Book  and  Heart  (Martin) 70 

Endymion,  the  Man  in  the  Moon  (Lyly) 202 

Engineering  as  a  Vocation  (McCullogh) 182 

England  and  the  English  from  an  American  Point  of  View 

(Collier)    173 

English  Prose  and  Poetry  (Manly) 206 

English-Speaking  Peoples,  The   (Beer) 172 

English  Wayfaring  Life  in  the  Middle  Ages  ( Jusserand) .  .176 

Essays   ( Bacon)    131 

Essays:  First  and  Second  Series  (Emerson) 132 

Essays  in  Criticism:  First  Series  (Arnold) 130 

Essays  of  Elia,  The  (Lamb) 159 

Essentials  in  Journalism  (Harrington) 181 

Esther  Waters  (Moore) 196 

Eumenides  (Aeschylus)    199 

Every  Boy's  Book  (Rutledge) 83 

Everyman  201 

Every  Man  in  His  Humour  ( Jonson) 203 

Executive  and  His  Control  of  Men,  The  (Gowin) 181 

Exporting  to  Latin  America  (Filsinger) 180 

Fair  Maid  of  Perth,  The  (Scott) 102 

Fairy  Gold  (Bates) 75 

Fairy  Tales  and  Wonder  Stories  (Andersen) 40 

Fairy  Tales  from  the  Far  North  ( Asbjornsen) 45 

Faithful  Shepherdess,  The  (Fletcher) 203 

Familiar  Studies  of  Men  and  Books  (Stevenson) 133 


INDEX  215 

Famous  Discoverers  and  Explorers  of  America  (Johnson) . .   61 

Farm  Book,  The  (Smith) 54 

Fathers  and  Children  (Turgenev) 128,  11)8 

"Fear  God  in  Your  Own  Village"  (Morse) 170 

Fifty  Famous  Stories  Retold  (Baldwin) 45 

Fighting  Fleets,  The  (Paine) 19O 

Firelight  Stories  (Bailey) 45 

First  Hundred  Thousand,  The  (Hay) 187 

Five  Little  Peppers  and  How  They  Grew  (Sidney) 72 

Five  Plays  ( Dunsany )   153 

Florence  Nightingale  (Richards) !»3 

Florida  Days  (Deland) 106 

Flower  Guide  (Reed) 82 

Football,  the  American  Intercollegiate  Game  (Davis) 81 

For  Days  and  Days  (Wynne) 51 

Forty  Years  of  It   (Whitlock)    171 

Four  and  Twenty  Toilers  (Lucas) 53 

Four  Aspects  of  Civic  Duty  (Taft) 171 

Four  Feet,  Two  Feet,  and  No  Feet  (Richards) 50 

Four  Great  Americans  (Baldwin) 59 

Four  Horsemen  of  the  Apocalypse,  The  (Ibanez) 188 

Four  Months  Afoot  in  Spain  (Franck) 134 

Four  Years  in  the  White  North  (Macmillan) 135 

Fraternity   (Galsworthy)    122 

French  in  the  Heart  of  America,  The  (Finley) 169 

Friar  Bacon  and  Friar  Bungay  (Greene) 203 

Frogs  (Aristophanes)  199 

"From  School  Through  College  (Wright) 109 

Fundamentals  of  Naval  Tactics,  The  (Bernotti) Ill 

Gallegher,  and  Other  Stories  (Davis) 97 

Gallipoli    (Masefield)    189 

Gammer  Gurton's  Needle 202 

Gentleman  from  Indiana,  The  (Tarkington) 104 

Gentleman  of  France,  A  (Weyman) 104 

George  Washington  ( Scudder) 62 

George  Westinghouse;  His  Life  and  Achievements  (Leupp)  93 

Georges  Guynemer  (Bordeaux)   185 

German  Secret  Service  in  America,  1914-1918,  The  (Jones)  .188 
Germany  and  the  Germans  from  an  American  Point  of  View 

(Collier)    173 

Girl  Next  Door,  The  (Seaman) 72 

Girl  Pioneers  of  America  (Beard) 80 

Girls  and  Education  (Briggs)   108 

Girls  of  '64  (Knipe) 69 

Glimpses  of  Unfamiliar  Japan  (Hearn) 175 

Glory  of  the  Coming,  The  (Cobb) 186 

Glory  That  Was  Greece.  The  (Stobart) 179 


216  INDEX 

Golden  Age,  The  (Grahame) 149 

Golden  Hair  and  the  Three  Bears  (Johnson) 42 

Golden  Numbers  ( Wiggin) 77 

Golden  Treasury,  The  (Palgrave)    206 

Good  Old  Stories  for  Boys  and  Girls  (Smith) ....  73 

Good  Wolf,  The   ( Burnett)    46 

Gothic  Quest,  The  (Cram) 161 

Government  of  Modern  States,  The  (Willoughby) 172 

Government  of  the  United  States,  The   (Munroe) 170 

Grand  Fleet:    1914-1916,   The    (Jellicoe) 188 

Grandeur  That  Was  Rome,  The  (Stobart) 179 

Grandissimes,    The    (Cable) 147 

Great  Adventure,  The   (Roosevelt) 191 

Great  American  Universities    (Slosson) 109 

Great  Divide,  The    (Moody) 129 

Great  Sioux  Trail,  The   (Altsheler) 63 

Greater  European  Governments    (Lowell) 176 

Greek  View  of  Life,  The  (Dickinson)   174 

Group  of  Famous  Women,  A   (Horton) 60 

Guide  to  the  Trees  ( Lounsberry ) 82 

Guns  of  Bull  Run  (Altsheler)    63 

Guns  of  Shilob.  (Altsheler) 63 

H.  M.  S.  Pinafore   (Gilbert) 153 

Half  Hours   (Barrie) 153 

Hamlet  ( Shakspere) 129 

Handicraft  for  Boys   (Collins) 85 

Hans  Brinker,  or  The  Silver  Skates  (Dodge) 66 

Harper's  Outdoor  Book  for  Boys  (Adams) 80 

Headquarters  Nights   (Kellogg) 189 

Heart  of  Midlothian,  The  (Scott) 102 

Heart  of  Oak  Books,  The  (Norton) 49 

Heart  of  the  West  (O.  Henry) 124 

Heidi:  Her  Years  of  Wandering  and  Learning  (Spyri) 51 

Held  for  Orders   (Spearman) 103 

Henry  IV    (Shakspere) 105 

Henry  Hudson,  His  Times  and  His  Voyages  (Bacon)   116 

Heroes  and  Martyrs  of  Science  (Ewart) 91 

Heroes  of  Today  (Parkman) 93 

Heroines  of  Service  (Parkman) 93 

Hey,  Diddle,  Diddle  Picture  Book  (Caldecott) 41 

High  Adventure    (Hall) 187 

Highways  and  Byways  of  the  South   (Johnson) 109 

Hilda  Lessways    (Bennett) 146 

Historical  Plays  of  Colonial  Days   (Tucker) 76 

History  of  Architecture  (Kimball) 161 

History  of  Henry  Esmond,  The  (Thackeray) 151 

History  of  King  Alfred   (Abbott) 59 


INDEX  217 

History  of  Pendennis,  The   (Thackeray) 127 

History  of  South  Africa,  A  (Fairbridge) 174 

History  of  the  French  Revolution  (Carlyle) 173 

History  of  the  Reformation  in  Scotland  (Knox) 176 

History   of   the   United    States   from   Hayes   to   McKinley 

(Rhodes)     171 

Holland  of  the  Dutch   (Boulger) 172 

Home  Book  of  Verse  for  Young  Folks  (Stevenson) 76 

Home  Fires  in  France   (Fisher) 186 

Home  Life  in  China  (Headland)    175 

Hoosier  Schoolmaster,  The   (Eggleston) 98 

Hour  Glass,  The  (Yeats) 158 

House  of  Seven  Gables,  The  (Hawthorne) 124 

How  France  is  Governed   (Poincare)    178 

How  to  Choose  the  Right  Vocation   (Merton) 182 

How  to  Know  the  Bible  (Hodges) 136 

How  to  Obtain  Citizenship    (Fowler) 169 

How  to  Play  Baseball   (McGraw) 82 

How  to  Study  Birds   (Job)    81 

Hugh  Wynne,  Free  Quaker   (Mitchell) 101 

Hypatia   (Kingsley)    125 

I  Suppositi  (Ariosto)    200 

Iceland  Fisherman,  An   ( Loti) 196 

Idea  of  a  University   (Newman) -: 183 

Imperial   England    ( Lavell ) 176 

Impressions  of  the  Kaiser  (Hill) 187 

In  Chimney  Corners   (MacManus) 49 

Indian  Heroes  and  Great  Chieftains   (Eastman) 60 

Indian  Legends  for  Camp  Fire  Girls  (Partridge) 71 

Influence  of  Sea  Power  on  History,  The  (Mahan) 177 

Influencing  Men  in  Business   (Scott) 184 

Inn  of  Tranquility,  The   (Galsworthy) 159 

In  Northern  Labrador    ( Cabot) 134 

In  Spain  (Lomas)    176 

Introduction  to  Philosophy,  An   (Fletcher) 136 

In  the  Wilds  of  South  America  (Miller) 135 

In  Tune  with  the  Infinite  (Trine) 137 

Inventions  of  the  Great  War  (Bond) 185 

Iphigenia  in  Tauris    (Euripides)    199 

Ireland  and  England   (Turner) 179 

Ireland:  a  Study  in  Nationalism  (Hackett) 175 

Isaac  Casaubon   (Pattison)    145 

Isabel  Carleton's  Year  (Ashmun) 95 

Ivanhoe    (Scott)     72 

Jane  Eyre  (Bronte)    121 

Jane  Shore    (Rowe) 204 


218  INDEX 

Janice  Meredith   (Ford) 99 

Japan:  an  Interpretation  (Hearn) !  .175 

Java  Head  (He,rgesheimer) 125 

Jean  Christophre   (Rolland) 197 

Jean  Inglesant    (Shorthouse) 151 

Jerusalem    ( Lagerlof )    196 

Jewish  Fairy  Tales  and  Stories  (Friedlander) 47 

Jim  Davis  (Masefield)   101 

John  Martin's  Big  Book  for  Little  Folk 42 

John  Marvel,  Assistant   (Page) 151 

Johnny  Appleseed:  a  Romance  of  the  Sower  (Atkinson)..   63 

Johnny  Crow's  Garden  (Brooke) 40 

Joining  the  Colors    (Botsford) 95 

Joseph  Vance:  an  111- written  Autobiography  (DeMorgan)  .193 

Jouir  (Margueritte)    196 

Julia:  or,  The  New  Heloise  (Rousseau) .197 

Julius   Caesar    (Shakspere) 106 

Jungle  Book,  The  (Kipling)    48 

Jungle  Peace   (Beebe) 134 

Just  So  Stories   (Kipling) 48 

Katrinka;  the  Story  of  a  Russian  Child  (Haskell) 67 

Kenilworth   (Scott)    103 

Kidnapped    (Stevenson) .103 

King  Arthur  Stories  from  Malory  (Stevens) 73 

King  Lear  ( Shakspere) 129 

King  of  the  Golden  River,  The  (Ruskin)    50 

King  Solomon's  Mines    (Haggard) 123 

Kipps:  the  Story  of  a  Simple  Soul  (Wells) 152 

Lad:  a  Dog  (Terhune) 73 

Lady  Windermere's  Fan   (Wilde) .158 

Land  of  Oz,  The  (Baum) , 40 

Land  We  Live  In,  The  (Price) 82 

Last  Days  of  Pompeii,  The   (Bulwer-Lytton) 96 

Last  of  the  Mohicans,  The   (Cooper) 65 

Latter-Day  Pamphlets   (Carlyle) 173 

Law  as  a  Vocation,  The  (Allen) 180 

layman's  Handbook  of  Medicine,  A   (Cabot) 180 

Leading  American  Inventors  (lies) 92 

Learning  to  Fly  (Graham-White) 112 

Les  Miserables    (Hugo) 149 

Letters   (Cowper)    132 

Letters   (Erasmus)    174 

Letters   (Gray)    159 

Letters  and  Diary   (Seeger) 191 

Letters  from  a  Self-made  Merchant  to  His  Son  (Lorimer) .  .100 
Letters  That  Make  Good   (Poole) 183 


INDEX  21J> 

Life  and  Opinions  of  Tristram  Shandy,  The  (Sterne) 197 

Life  of  Alice  Freeman  Palmer,  The  (Palmer)    118 

Life  of  Charlotte  Bronte,  The  (Gaskell) .- «u 

Life  of  Doctor  Arnold,  The  (Stanley) 146 

Life  of  General  Joffre  (Kahn) 117 

Life  of  Johnson   (Boswell) 143 

Life  of  Mary  Lyon,  The  (Gilchrist) 92 

Life  of  Milton   (Masson) 177 

Life  of  Phillips   Brooks    (Allen) 116 

Life  of  Sir  Walter  Scott  (Lockhart) 117 

Life  of  Washington,  The  (Marshall) 117 

Life  of  William  Ewart  Gladstone  (Morley) 118 

Light  Freights   (Jacobs) 149 

Light  That  Failed,  The   (Kipling) 126 

Lincoln,  Master  of  Men  (Rothschild) 119 

Lisbeth  Longfrock  (Aanrud) 62 

Little  Folk's  Handy  Book  (Beard) 52 

Little  Lame  Prince  and  His  Traveling  Cloak,  The  (Craik) .  47 

Little  Lord  Fauntleroy    (Burnett) 64 

Little  Plays  from  American  History   (Walker) 76 

Little  Red  Riding  Hood   (Lang) 49 

Little  Songs  of  Long  Ago   (LeMair) 42 

Little  Women    (Alcott) 62 

Lives    (Plutarch)    93 

Lives  of  Girls   (Bolton) 91 

Living  Bayonets   ( Dawson ) 186 

London  Merchant,  The  (Lillo) 204 

Lonesomest  Doll,  The   (Brown) 46 

Lord  Jim   (Conrad)    121 

Lorna  Doone  (Blackmore)    95 

Lost  Indian  Magic   (Moon) 70 

Louisa  May  Alcott  (Moses) 61 

Love  in  Old  Clothes  (Bunner) 121 

Luck  of  Roaring  Camp,  The  ( Harte) 124 

Macbeth  ( Shakspere)    130 

Madame  Bovary   (Flaubert) 194 

Madness  of  Philip,  The    (Bacon) 95 

Main   Traveled   Roads    (Garland) 123 

Major  Barbara    (Shaw) 157 

Makers  of  Our  History  (Faris) 91 

Making  of  an  American,  The  (Riis) 171 

Man  of  Feeling,  The   (Mackenzie) 196 

Man  Without  a  Country,  The  (Hale)    67 

Many  Cargoes    (Jacobs) 149 

Margaret  Ogilvy    (Barrie) 116 

Marigold  Garden   (Greenaway) 41 

Marjorie   Daw    (Aldrich) 94 


220  INDEX 

Martial  Adventures  of  Henry  and  Me,  The  (White) 192 

Martin  Chuzzlewit  ( Dickens) 122 

Mary  Goes  First    (Jones)    156 

Mason  Bees,  The   (Fabre)    91 

Meditations    (Marcus  Aurelius) 158 

Men  of  Business   ( Stoddard) 94 

Men  of  Iron  (Pyle) 71 

Men  of  Letters   (Scott) 160" 

Men  of  Renown   (Wise) 62 

Men  Who  Are  Making  America  (Forbes) 117 

Men  Who  Made  Good   (Faris) 91 

Men,  Women  and  Manners  in  Colonial  Times  (Fisher) 169 

Merchant  Ships  and  What  They  Bring  (Braine) 52 

Merry  Men  and  Other  Tales  and  Fables,  The  (Stevenson)  .127 

Micah  Clarke    (Doyle) 66 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream  (Shakspere) 106 

Mill  on  the  Floss,  The  (Eliot) 98 

Milton   (Pattison)    145 

Ministry  of  Art,  The  (Cram) 161 

Mine,  de  Sevigne  (Ritchie) 160 

Modern  Accounting  (Hatfield) .181 

Modern  Japan:   Social,  Industrial,  Political   (Hershey) 176 

Modern  Reader's  Bible,  The    (Moulton) 167 

Money  and  Banking  (White) 185 

Money  Making  for  Boys   ( Collins) 110 

Monsieur  Beaucaire    (Tarkington) 103 

Moody's  Manual  of  Railroad  and  Corporation  Securities 182 

Moonstone,  The   (Collins) 148 

More  Short  Sixes   (Bunner ) 121 

Mother    (Norris)    102 

Mother  Goose  (Perrault) 43 

Mother's  Nursery  Tales    (Pyle) 43 

Mr.  Midshipman  Easy   (Marryat) 101 

Mrs.  Caudle's  Curtain  Lectures   ( Jerrold) 159 

Mrs.  Wiggs  of  the  Cabbage  Patch   (Rice) 71 

My  Days  and  Nights  on  the  Battlefield  (Coffin) 65 

My  Four  Years  in  Germany  (Gerard) 187 

My  Home  in  the  Field  of  Honour  (Huard) 188 

My  Second  Year  of  the  War  (Palmer) 190 

My  Study  Windows  (Lowell)    133 

My  Year*  of  the  Great  War  (Palmer) 190 

Nan  (Masefield) 156 

Nathan  Hale  (Fitch)    153 

Nationalizing  America    (Steiner) 171 

Naval  Heroes  (Collins)    186 

Nelly's  Silver  Mine  (Jackson)    69 

New  America,  The   (Dilnot) 168 


INDEX  221 

New  Baby  World,  A  (Dodge) 41 

New  Business  of  Farming,  The  (Dimock)    18<» 

New  Canterbury  Tales  (Hewlett) ]:• , 

New  England  Nun  and  Other  Stories,  A  (Wilkins) 153 

New  Grub  Street,  The  (Gissing) i : .:, 

New  Machiavelli,  The  (Wells) i:,2 

New  Map  of  Africa,  The  (Gibbons) 175 

New  Map  of  Europe,  The  (Gibbons) 187 

Newspaper  Reporting  and  Correspondence   (Hyde) 181 

New  York's  Part  in  History  (Williams) 172 

New  World,  The  (Lope  de  Vega) 200 

New  World  Fairy  Book,  The  (Kennedy)    48 

Ninety-three   (Hugo)    . .14!) 

Nun,  The    (Bazin) i;»i> 

Nursery  Tales  from  Many  Lands  (Skinner) 44 

Observation:  Every  Man  His  Own  University  (Conwell) .  .110 
Occupations:  a  Textbook  in  Vocational  Guidance  (Gowin)  .181 

Odd  Number,  The  (Maupassant) 150 

Old  Curiosity  Shop,  The  (Dickens) 07 

Old  Front  Line,  The  (Masefield) 18!) 

Old  Goriot  (Balzac)    120 

Old  Mother  West  Wind  Stories  (Burgess) 40 

Old  Sailor's  Yarns,  An  (Coffin) 65 

Old  Seaport  Towns  of  the  South  (Cram) 134 

Old  Truths  and  New  Facts   (Kirkland) 189 

Old  Virginia  and  Her  Neighbors  (Fiske) 169 

Old  Wives'  Tale,  The   (Bennett) 146 

Old  World  Through  New  Eyes,  The  (Ware) 17!) 

Oliver  Cromwell    (Carlyle) 143 

On  Becoming  an  American  (Bridges) 168 

On    Heroes,    Hero    Worship    and    the    Heroic    in    History 

(Carlyle)     131 

On  Our  Hill  (Bacon) 95 

On  the  Trail   (Beard) 80 

On  the  Trail  of  Grant  and  Lee  (Hill) 68 

Open  Boats   (Noyes) 190 

Ordeal  of  Richard  Feverel,  The   (Meredith) 150 

Oregon  Trail,  The  (Parkman) 79.  17o 

Origins  of  the  Triple  Alliance  (Coolidge) 173 

Origins  of  the  War  (Rose) 191 

Othello     (Shakspere)     130 

Other  Americans,  The   (R~uhl) 178 

Otto  of  the  Silver  Hand  (Pyle) 71 

Our  Greatest  Battle   (Palmer) r.M> 

Our  Old  Nursery  Rhymes  ( LeMair) 4 

Out  of  the  Shadow  (Cohen) 116 

Outlines  of  Industrial  Chemistry   (Thorp) 185 


222  INDEX 

Owd  Bob,  the  Grey  Dog  of  Kenmuir  (Ollivant) '.  .102 

Oxford  Book  of  English  Verse,  The  (Quiller-Couch) 206 

Part  of  a  Man's  Life  (Higginson) 117 

Past  and  Present  (Carlyle) 159,  173 

Patience    (Gilbert)    153 

Patrician,   The    (Galsworthy) 123 

Patriotic  Plays  and  Pageants  (Mackay) 76 

Paul  Jones    (Hapgood) 60 

Peeps  at  Switzerland  (Finnemore) 53 

Peg  Woofington   (Reade) 127 

Perfect  Tribute,  The  (Andrews) 94 

Persae    199 

Peter  Pan  (Barrie) > 153 

Peter  Rabbit  Books,  The  (Potter) 43 

Philosophy    Four    (Wister) 128 

Pigeon  Raising  (Macleod) 112 

Pilgrims  of  Today   (Wade) 94 

Pilgrim's  Progress,  The   (Bunyan) 96 

Pirates  of  Penzance,  The   (Giibert) 153 

Pit,  The  (Norris)    102 

Places  Young  Americans  Want  to  Know  (Tomlinson) 83 

Plutarch  for  Boys  and  Girls   (White) 62 

Playboy  of  the  Western  World,-  The  (Synge) . .  .157 

Pocket  Manual  of  Rules  of  Order  (Robert) Ill 

Politics  for  Young  Americans   (Nordhoff) 170 

Posthumous  Papers  of  the  Pickwick  Club,  The  (Dickens) . .  97 

Pot  of  Gold,  The   (Wilkins) 51 

Practical  Exporting  (Hough) 181 

Practical  Journalism   (Shuman) 184 

Practical  Things  with  Simple  Tools   (Goldsmith) 85 

Praeterita:   by  Himself   (Ruskin) 145 

Preparing  for  Womanhood    (Lowry) 109 

Pre-Shakespearian  Drama    (Manly) 207 

President  Wilson's  Foreign  Policy   (Scott) ,. .191 

President  Wilson's  State  Papers  and  Addresses  (Shaw)... 191 

Pride  and  Prejudice   (Austen) 120 

Prince,  The   (Machievelli) 176 

Princess  of  the  Glass  Hill,  The  (Lang) 49 

Principles  of  Bookkeeping,  The   (Miner) 182 

Prisoner  of  Zenda,  The   (Hawkins) 99 

Promised  Land,  The   (Antin) 91 

Psychology  of  Advertising,  The    (Scott) 184 

Rab  and  His  Friends   (Brown) 96 

Ramona   ( Jackson )    100 

Rational  Living  (King) .136 

Ready  for  Business;  or  Choosing  an  Occupation  (Manson)  .110 


INDEX  223 

Real  Soldiers  of  Fortune   ( Davis) 91 

Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm    (Wiggin) 75 

Recollections  (Morley) 118,  178 

Reconstruction,  Political  and  Economic  (Dunning) 169 

Red  Badge  of  Courage,  The  (Crane) 122 

Red  Cow  and  Her  Friends,  The  (McArthur) 133 

Red  Robe,  The  (Brieux)   103 

Reflections  on  the  Revolution  in  France  (Burke) 131 

Religio  Grammatici    (Murray)    137 

Religio  Medici  (Browne)    158 

Religion  of  an  Educated  Man,  The  (Peabody) 183 

Remaking  of  a  Mind,  The  (DeMan) 174 

Representative  American  Plays   (Quinn) 207 

Representative    British    Dramas,    Victorian    and    Modern 

(Moses)   207 

Representative  Plays  by  American  Dramatists  (Moses) ..  .207 

Republic   (Plato)   178 

Retail  Selling  and  Store  Management  (Neystrom) 183 

Return  of  the  Native,  The  (Hardy)   123 

Richard  Carvel  (Churchill) 97 

Riders  to  the  Sea   (Synge)    130 

Right  of  Way,  The  (Parker) 151 

Rise  and  Fall  of  Caesar  Birotteau,  The  (Balzac) 120 

Rise  of  Silas  Lapham,  The  (Howells) 125 

Rise  of  the  Dutch  Republic,  The  (Motley) 178 

Rising  of  the  Moon,  The  (Gregory) 129 

Rivals,  The  (Sheridan)   130,  205 

Riverman,    The    (White) 105 

Romance  of  Commerce,   The    (Self ridge) 184 

Romeo  and  Juliet   (Shakspere)    106 

Romola  (Eliot)   99 

Routine  and  Ideals  (Briggs) 108 

Russia  and  Poland    (Morfill) 178 

Sailing  Alone  Around  the  World  (Slocum) 107 

Salvation  Nell   (Sheldon)    157 

Sant  'Ilario  (Crawford)    193 

Saracinesca   (Crawford)    193 

Sartor  Resartus   (Carlyle) 131 

Scarlet  Letter,  The  (Hawthorne) 124 

School,  College  and  Character    (Briggs) 108 

School  for  Scandal,  The  (Sheridan) 130,  205 

Science  and  Art  of  Salesmanship,  The  (Hoover) 181 

Scotch  Twins  (Perkins) 53 

Scotland  (Mackie)    177 

Scottish  Chiefs   (Porter)    71 

Sea  and  the  Jungle.  The  (Tomlinson) 136 

Second  Book  of  American  Verse,  The   (Rittenhouse) 206 


224  INDEX 

Second  Mrs.  Tanquary,  The  (Pinero) 157 

Second  Shepherd's  Play,  The 202 

Secret  City,  The  (Walpole) 152 

Sejanus,  His  Fall  ( Jonson) 203 

Self  Cultivation  in  English  (Palmer) 109 

Sesame  and  Lilies  ( Ruskin) 160 

She  Stoops  to  Conquer  (Goldsmith) 105,  205 

Short  History  of  the  English  People,  A  (Greene) 175 

Short  Introduction  to  the  Literature  of  the  Bible,  A 

(Moulton)  137 

Short  Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln  (Nicolay) 93 

Short  Sixes  (Bunner)  121 

Short  Stories  (Poe)  126 

Showing-up  of  Blanco  Posnet,  The  (Shaw) 157 

Sidney  Lanier  (Minis)  • 144 

Silas  Marner,  the  Weaver  of  Raveloe  (Eliot) 67 

Singing  Circle,  The  (Bell) 46 

Sixteen  Hundred  Business  Books  (Merely) 183 

Smith  College  Stories  (Bacon) ' 95 

Social  Work  (Cabot)  180 

Socialism  and  American  Ideals  (Myers) 170 

Soldiers  of  Fortune  (Davis) 97 

Some  Chemical  Problems  of  Today  (Duncan) 112 

Some  Nursery  Rhymes  of  Belgium,  France,  and  Russia 

(Walter)  44 

Some  Remarkable  Women  (Wise) 62 

Some  Strange  Corners  of  Our  Own  Country  (Lummis) 107 

South  America  (Browne) 77 

South  of  Panama  (Ross) 136 

Spanish  Tragedy,  The  (Kyd) 202 

Spirit  of  the  Age,  The  (Hazlitt) 132 

Spirit  of  Youth  and  the  City  Streets,  The  (Addams) 168 

Spy,  The  ( Cooper)  65 

Stalky  and  Company  (Kipling) 69 

Star  Stories  for  Little  Folks  (Warner) 54 

Steel  Water  of  Madrid,  The  (Lope  de  Vega) 200 

Steep  Trails  (Muir)  107 

Stories  of  Great  Americans  for  Little  Americans  (Eggles- 

ton)  60 

Stories  of  Inventors  (Doubleday) 60 

Stories  of  the  Gorilla  Country  (DuChaillu) 134 

Stories  of  the  Great  West  (Roosevelt) 171 

Stories  of  the  Pilgrims  (Pumphrey) 54 

Story-Hour  Favorites  (Harper) 42 

Story  of  a  Bad  Boy,  The  (Aldrich) 63 

Story  of  a  Pioneer,  The  (Shaw) 119 

Story  of  My  Life,  The  (Keller) ; .  92 

Story  of  Roland,  The  (Baldwin) 63 


INDEX  225 

Story  of  the  American  Merchant  Marine,  The  (Abbot) 179 

Story  of  the  Greek  People,  The  (Tappan) so 

Story  of  the  Submarine,  The  (Bishop) Ill 

Story-Telling  Poems   (Olcott) 76 

Stover  at  Yale  (Johnson) loo 

Strange    Case    of    Doctor    Jekyll    and    Mr.     Hyde,     The 

(Stevenson)    127 

Strife  (Galsworthy)    128 

Student  in  Arms,  A   (Hankey) 187 

Submarine  in  War  and  Peace,  The  ( Lake) 181) 

Succeeding  with  What  You  Have  (Schwab) Ill 

Sunken  Bell,  The  (Hauptmann) 156 

Sudvey  of  Occupations  Open  to  the  Girl  (Dodge) 18O 

Swiss  Family  Robinson  (Wyss)    52 

T.  Tembarom   (Burnett)    06 

Table  Talk   (Hazlitt)    132 

Tailor  of  Gloucester,  The  (Potter) 43 

Tale  of  Two  Cities,  A  (Dickens) 98 

Tales  from  Shakspere    (Lamb)    105 

Tales  of  Laughter  ( Wiggin) 51 

Tales  of  Mean  Streets  (Morrison) 126 

Tanglewood  Tales  (Hawthorne)   68 

Tartarin  of  Tarascon   (Daudet) 148 

Tempest,    The    (Shakspere)     106- 

Tenderfoot  with  Peary,  A   (Borup) 77 

Ten  Thousand  Miles  with  a  Dog  Sled  (Stuck) 108 

Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles  (Hardy) 123 

Theodore  Roosevelt:  an  Intimate  Biography  (TLayer) 146 

Theodore  Roosevelt's  Letters  to  His  Children 131 

This  Life  and  the  Next   (Forsyth) 136 

Thomas  Carlyle  (Froude)   144 

Three  Gringoes  in  Venezuela  and  Central  America  (Davis). 106 

Three  Men  in  a  Boat  (Jerome) 100 

Three  Mulla-Mullgars,  The  (De  la  Mare) 47 

Three  Musketeers,  The  (Dumas) 148 

Through  the  Dark  Continent  (Stanley) 108 

Timothy's  Quest  (Wiggin)    75 

Toby  Tyler,  or  Ten  Weeks  with  the  Circus  (Otis)    70 

To  Girls    (Hersey)    109 

Toilers  of  the  Sea  (Hugo) 125 

Tom  Brown's  School  Days   (Hughes) 69 

Tom  Jones   (Fielding) 149 

Torch  Bearer,   The    (Thurston) 74 

Tower  of  London,  The   (Ainsworth) 119 

Track's  End   (Carruth)    65 

Tragedies   (Seneca)    199 

Training  and  Rewards  of  a  Physician   (Cabot) 180 


226  INDEX 

Training  in  Courtesy  (McNaught) 182 

Training  of  a  Salesman,  The  (Maxwell) 182 

Training  of  Wild  Animals  (Bostock) 77 

Tramp  Across  the  Continent,  A  (Lummis) 107 

Tramping    Through    Mexico,    Guatemala,    and    Honduras 

(Franck)     134 

Treasure  Island   (Stevenson) 73 

Treasury  of  War  Poetry,  A   (Clark)    186 

Trees  That  Every  Child  Should  Know  (Rogers) 82 

Trilby  (DuMaurier)   148 

Truth  About  China  and  Japan,  The  (Weale) 179 

Twenty  Thousand  Leagues  Under  the  Sea  (Verne) 74 

Twice  Told  Tales  (Hawthorne) 124 

Two  Years  Before  the  Mast  (Dana) 65 

Types  of  English  Drama   (Stevens) 207 

Ulysses  S.  Grant  (Wister) 94 

Uncle  Abner's  Legacy   ( Verrill ) 74 

Uncle  Remus,  His  Songs  and  Sayings   (Harris)    47 

Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  (Stowe) 103 

Under  Fire    (Barbusse)     185 

Under  Sail  ( Riesenberg) 107 

Under  the  Window  (Greenaway) 41 

Understood  Betsy   (Fisher)    67 

Vacation  Camping  for  Girls  (Marks) 82 

Vagabonding  Down  the  Andes  (Franck) 107 

Valley  of  Democracy,  The  (Nicholson) 170 

Vanity  Fair;  a  Novel  Without  a  Hero  (Thackeray) ..  i .. .128 

Varmint,  The  (Johnson)    100 

•Venice  Preserved  (Otway ) " 204 

Vicar  of  Wakefield,  The   (Goldsmith) 67 

Victory    (Conrad) 122 

'Virgin  Islands,  The   (Booy) 106 

Virginian,  The   (Wister) 128 

Virginians,  The   (Thackeray) 152 

Virginibus  Puerisque   (Stevenson) 133 

Vocational  and  Moral  Guidance  (Davis) 110 

Vocations  for  Girls  (Weaver) 185 

Voltaire  in  His  Letters  (Tallentyre) 133 

Voyages  of  Captain  Scott,  The  (Turley) 108 

Wanderer  in  Florence,  A  (Lucas)   135 

Wanderer  in  Venice,  A  (Lucas)    135 

War  and  Peace   (Tolstoi)    198 

War  and  Women   (Stobart)    192 

War  Inventions  and  How  They  Were  Invented  (Gibson) .  .112 
War  of  Independence,  The  (Fiske)   169 


INDEX  227 

Water  Babies,  The  (Kingsley)  48 

Way  of  All  Flesh,  The  (Butler)  147 

Way  of  an  Indian,  The  (Remington)  7!) 

Way  of  the  World,  The  (Congreve)  204 

Ways  for  Boys  to  Do  Things  (Vance)  85 

Weavers,  The  (Hauptmann)  156 

Westward  Ho!  (Kingsley)  126 

What  Every  Woman  Knows  (Barrie)  153 

What  Happened  to  Europe  (Vanderlip)  192 

What  Men  Live  By:  Work,  Play,  Love,  Worship  (Cabot)  .  .159 

When  I  Was  a  Boy  in  Belgium  ( Jonckheere)  61 

When  Patty  Went  to  College  (Webster)  74 

When  the  King  Came  (Hodges)  53 

Whirligigs  (O.  Henry)  124 

Whispering  Smith  ( Spearman ) 10a 

White  Company,  The  (Doyle)  66 

White  Umbrella  in  Mexico,  A  (Smith)  108 

Why  the  Chimes  Rang,  and  Other  Stories  (Alden)  45 

Weavers,  The  (Hauptmann)  156 

Wild  Animals  I  Have  Known  (Seton)  83 

Wild  Flower  Book  for  Young  People  (Lounsberry)  82 

Wilhelm  Meister  (Goethe)  195 

Window  in  Thrums,  A  (Barrie)  120 

Winning  of  the  West,  The  (Roosevelt)  171 

Wireless  Telegraphy  and  Telephony  Simply  Explained 

(Morgan)  112 

Wisdom  of  Father  Brown,  The  (Chesterton)  121 

Witching  Hour,  The  (Thomas)  130 

With  Kitchener  to  Khartoum  (Stevens)  136 

With  Lee  in  Virginia  (Henty)  68 

With  the  Allies  (Davis)  186 

With  the  Little  Folks  (Wright)  45 

With  the  Men  Who  Do  Things  (Bond)  64 

Woman  in  White,  The  (Collins)  148 

Woman  Killed  With  Kindness,  A  (Heywood)  203 

Wonder  Book,  The  (Hawthorne)  68 

Wonderful  Chair  and  the  Tales  It  Told,  The  (Browne)  . .  46 

Wonderland  of  Stamps,  The  (Burroughs) 84 

Wonders  of  Instinct  (Fabre)  81 

Wonders  of  the  War  on  Land,  The  (Rolt- Wheeler)  72 

Woodcraft  Manual  for  Boys,  The  (Seton)  85 

Woodrow  Wilson  ( Low)  117 

World  War,  The  (Simonds)  191 

Wordsworthshire  (Robertson)  135 

Work  (Zola)  198 

Work  of  Wall  Street,  The  (Pratt)  184 

Working  One's  Way  Through  College  and  University 

(Wilson)     109 


228  INDEX 

Writing  of  News,  The  (Ross)   184 

Writing  of  Today    (Cunliffe)    180 

Wuthering   Heights    (Bronte)     147 

Yashka  (Botchkareva)   143 

Young  Alaskans  In  the  Far  North  (Hough)   69 

Young  Man  and  the  World,  The  (Beveridge)    110 

You  Never  Can  Tell   (Shaw)    157 

Zone  Policeman  88   (Franck)    107 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS 

Aaiirud,  Hans   62 

Abbott,  Jacob    59 

Abbot,  Willis  J 179 

Adams,    Henry    168 

Adams,  Joseph  H 80 

Addams,  Jane   168 

Aeschylus    199 

Aesop    39 

Ainsworth,  \Vra.  H 119 

Alcott,  Louisa  May   62 

Alden.  Raymond  M 45 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey 63,  94 

Allen,  E.  F 73 

Allen,  A.  V.  G 116 

Allen,  Charles  F 59 

Allen,  Frederick  J HO,  180 

Allen.  James  Lane 119 

Altsheler,  Joseph  A 63 

Andersen,  Hans  Christian   40 

Andrews,  Mary  Shipman    94 

Antin,  Mary 91 

Ariosto,  Ludovico 200 

Aristophanes 199 

Arnold,  Matthew  130,  158 

Asbjornsen,  P.  C 45 

Ashmun,  Margaret    95 

Atkinson,  Eleanor  63 

Augustine,  Saint 146 

Aurelius,  Marcus   158 

Austen,  Jane   120 

Babson,  Roger  W 180 

Bacon,  Edgar  M 77,  116 

Bacon,  Francis   131 

Bacon,  Josephine  Daskam 95 

Bailey,  Carol>  n  S 45 

Baker,  Ray  Stannard   83 

Baldwin,  James    45,  59,  63 

Balzac,  Honore  de  120 

Barbour,  Ralph  H 64 

229 


230  INDEX 

Barbusse,  Henri    185 

Barnard,  H.  C 52 

Barr,  Amelia  E 64 

Barrie,  J.  M 116,  120,  153 

Bates,  Katherine  Lee 75 

Baum,  L.  Prank 40 

Bazin,  Rene"   192 

Beach,  S.  C 59 

Beard,  Dan   84 

Beard,  Lina 52,  80,  84 

Beebe,  C.  W 134 

Beer,  George  L 172 

Bell,  F.  E.  0 46 

Bennett,  Arnold  120,  146 

Bernotti,  R Ill 

Besant,   Walter    147 

Beveridge,  Albert  J 110 

Bishop,   Farnham    Ill 

Bishop,  Joseph  B 131 

Blackmore,  Richard  D 95 

Bolton,  Sarah    91 

Bond,  A.  R 64,  111,  185 

Booy,  T.  H.  N 106 

Bordeaux,  Henry   185 

Borrow,  George   193 

Borup,  George  77 

Bostock,  Frank  C 77 

Boswell,  James   143 

Botchkareva,  Maria 143 

Botsford,  C.  A 95 

Boulger,  D.  C 172 

Boynton,   Percy   H 205 

Braine,  S.  E 52 

Bridges,  Horace  J 168 

Brieux,  Eugene  193 

Briggs,  L.  R 108 

Bronson,  Walter  C 205 

Bronson-Howard,  G.  F 121 

Bronte,  Charlotte  121 

Bronte,  Emily  147 

Brooke,  L.  L 40 

Brookfield,  Frances  M 143 

Brooks,  E.  S 59 

Brooks,  Noah   , 64 

Brown,  Abbie  F ! 46 

Brown,  Alice    121 

Brown,  John  96 

Browne,  Edith  A 77 


INDEX  231 

Browne,  Frances 46 

Browne,  Sir  Thomas 158 

Bryce,  James  168 

Bullen,  Frank  T 78 

Bulwer-Lytton,  Lord  96 

Bunner,  H.  C 121 

Bunyan,  John   06 

Burgess,  Thornton  W 40,  64,  81 

Burke,  Edmund   131 

Burnett,  Frances  Hodgson   46,  64,  96 

Burroughs,  W.  D 84 

Butler,  Samuel   147 

Buzzell,   J.   J 183 

Cable,  George  W 147 

Cabot,  Richard  C 159,  180 

Cabot,  W.  B 134 

Caldecott,  R 41 

Calderon,  Pedro   200 

Cal  dwell,  O.  W 112 

Carlyle,  Thomas 131,  143,  159,  173 

Carroll,  Lewis  46 

Carruth,  H 65 

Catlin,  George 78 

Cellini,  Benvenuto   143 

Cervantes,  Saavedra,  Miguel  de 96,  147 

Chesterton,  G.  K .121 

Churchill,  Winston   97 

Clark,  G.  H 186 

Clark,  W.  J 81 

Clarke,  C.  R 84 

Claudy,  Carl  H 84 

Cobb,  Irwin  186 

Coffin,  Charles  C 65 

Coffin,  Roland  E 65 

Cohen,  Rose  116 

Collier,  Price   173 

Collins,  A.  D 110 

Collins,  A.  F 84,  85 

Collins,  Charles 41 

Collins,  Francis  A 186 

Collins,  W.  Wilkie 148 

Congreve,  William  204 

Conrad,  Joseph   121,  122 

Con  way,  E.  A 109 

Conwell,  Russell  H 110 

Coolidge,  A.  C 173 

Cooper.  James  Fenimore  65 


232  INDEX 

Corneille,  Pierre  201 

Cowper,  William   132 

Craik,  Dinah  M 47 

Cram,  Mildred   134 

Cram,  Ralph  A 160,  161 

Cram,  W.  E 83 

Crane,  Stephen    122 

Crane,  Walter  41 

Crawford,  Francis  Marion 193 

Cunliffe,  J.  W .180 

Custer,  E.  B 60 

Dana,  R.  H 65 

Daudet,  Alphonse    148 

Davis,  Jesse  B 110 

Davis,  Parke  H 81 

Davis,  Richard  Harding 91,  97,  106,  186 

Dawson,   Coningsby    186 

Dawson,  P.  T 81 

Defoe,  Daniel   47 

De  la  Mare,  Walter 47 

Deland,  Margaret  106 

De  Man,  Henry 174 

Deming,  E.  W : 52 

De  Morgan,  William   193 

Dickens,  Charles 66.  97,  98,  122,  194 

Dickinson,   G,   Lowes    174 

Dickinson,  T.  H 207 

Dilnot,  Frank    168 

Dimock,  J.  A 180 

Dodge,  H.  H 180 

Dodge,  Mary  Mapes   41,  66 

Dodgson,  C.  L.,  see  Carroll. 

Dostoeviski,  Feodor  194 

Doubleday,  Russell   60,  78 

Doyle,  A.  Conan    66,  98 

Dryden,  John  204 

Du  Chaillu,  Paul  B 134 

Dugmore,  A.  R 66 

Duhamel,  George    186 

Dumas,  Alexander  148,  194 

Du  Maurier,  George  148 

Duncan,  Norman    98,  174 

Duncan,  Robert  K 112 

Dunning,  W.  A 169 

Dunsany,  Lord   153 

Dyer,  F.  L.  . : 117 

Dyer,  Walter  A 52 


INDEX  233 

Kastman,  Charles  A 60 

Eaton,  Walter  P 66 

Edgell,  G.  H 161 

Eggleston,  Edward  60,  98 

Eikenberry,  W.  1 112 

Eliot,  George 67,  98,  99,  122 

Elwell,  H.  C 182 

Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo   132 

Erasmus    174 

Euripides 199 

Evans,  Mary  Anne,  see  Eliot. 

Ewart,  Henry  C 91 

Fabre,  J.  H 81,  91 

Fairbridge,  D 174 

Faris,  John  T 91 

Fielding,  Henry 149,  194 

Filsinger,  E.  D 180 

Finley,  John   169 

Finnemore,  John   53 

Fisher,  Dorothy  Canfield 67,  99,  186 

Fisher,  S.  G 169 

Fiske,  John  169 

Fitch,   Clyde 153 

Flaubert,  Gustave  194 

Fletcher,  John  203 

Fletcher,  Orlin  136,  203 

Forbes,  B.  C 117 

Ford,  John 204 

Ford,  Paul  Leicester  99 

Forsyth,  P.  T 136 

Fo\vler,  N.  C 110,  169 

France,  Anatole   195 

Franck,  H.  A 107,  134 

Frankenberg,  T.  T 181 

Franklin,  Benjamin   60 

Fraser,  J.  F 174 

Friedlander,  Gerald   47 

Fronde,  James  A 144 

Galsworthy,  John 122.  123,  128,  159,  187 

Garland,  Hamlin   67,  123 

Gaskell,  Elizabeth  C 01,  99 

Gates,  Eleanor 92 

Gay,  John   205 

Gerard,  James  W 187 

Gibbon,  Edward  144,  175 

Gibbons,  Floyd   187 


234  INDEX 

Gibbons,  H.  A 175,  187 

Gibson,  C.  R 112 

Gilbert,  William  S 153 

Gilchrist,  B.  B 92 

Gilder,  J.  L 144 

Gissing,  George  195 

Goethe,  Johann , 195 

Goldsmith,  Milton   85 

Goldsmith,  Oliver 67,  105,  205 

Gowin,  Enoch  B 181 

Grahame,  Kenneth   149 

Graham-White,  C 112 

Gray,  Thomas  159 

Greenaway,  Kate   41 

Greene,  J.  R 203 

Greene,  Robert   203 

Gregory,  Lady  Augusta  129 

Grenfell,  Wilfred  T 78 

Grierson,  Elizabeth  W 53 


Hackett,  Francis 175 

Hagerdorn,  Hermann   92 

Haggard,  S.  Rider  123 

Hale,  Edward  Everett 67 

Hall,  Norman  187 

Hankey,  Donald   187 

Hapgood,  Hutchins   60 

Hapgood,  Norman   117 

Hardy,  Thomas 123 

Harper,  Wilhelmina  42 

Harrington,  H.  F .* 181 

Harris,  Joel  Chandler   47 

Harte,  Francis  Bret 124 

Haskell,  Helen  E 67 

Hatfield,  H.  R 181 

Hauptmann,  Gerhart  156 

Hawkins,  Anthony  Hope 99 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel 68,  124 

Hay,   Ian    187 

Hazlitt,  William 132 

Headland,  I.  T 175 

Hearn,  Lafcadio  175 

Henry,  O 124 

Henty,  George  A 68 

Hergesheimer,  Joseph 125 

Hersey,  Heloise  E 109 

Hersh'ey,  A.  S 176 

Hewlett,  Maurice  , 195 


INDEX  235 

Heylinger,  William   68 

Hey  wood,  Thomas  203 

Higginson,  Thomas  Wentworth   117 

Hill,  David  Jayne   187 

Hill,  Frederick  T 68 

Hodges,  George  53,  136 

Holbrook,    Florence    48 

Hollister,  P.  M 188 

Hoover,  S.  R 181 

Hornung,  E.  W 100 

Horton,   Edith    60 

Hough,  B.  Olney 181 

Hough,  Emerson   61) 

Howells,  William  Dean 125,  169 

Huard,  Baroness   188 

Hudson,  W.  H 81 

Hughes,  Thomas 61,  69,  92 

Hugo,  Victor   125,  149 

Hyde,  G.  M 181 

Hyde,  W.  D 109 

Hyndman,  H.  M 144,  188 

Ibanez,  Vicente  Blasco  188 

Ibsen,  Henrik   156 

lies,  G 92 

Irving,  Washington   132 

Jackson,  Helen  Hunt  69,  100 

Jacobs,  W.  W 149 

James,  Henry   • 150 

Jellicoe,  Admiral   188 

Jerome,  Jerome  K 100 

Jerrold,  Douglas 159 

Jewett,  Sarah  Orne  125 

Job,  H.  K 81 

Jodelle,  Etienne   200 

Johnson,  C.  H.  L 61 

Johnson,  Clifton 42,  107,  135 

Johnson,  Margaret   42 

Johnson,  Owen  100 

Johnckheere,  Robert   61 

Jones,  Henry  Arthur 156 

Jones,  J.  P 188 

Jonson,  Ben  203 

Jusserand,  Jean  J 176 

Kahn,  Alexander   117 

Keller.   Helen    92 


236  INDEX 

Kellogg,  Vernon 189 

Kennedy,  H.  A 48 

Keynes,  J.  M 189 

Kimball,  F 161 

King,   H.    C 136 

Kingsland,  Florence   82 

Kingsley,  Charles 48,  125,  126 

Kipling,  Rudyard 48,  69,  126 

Kirkland,  Winifred    189 

Knipe,  Emilie   69 

Knox,  John 176 

Kyd,  Thomas    202 

Lagerlof,   Selma    196 

Lake,   Simon    189 

Lamb,  Charles  78,  105,  159 

Lang,  Andrew 49 

Lanier,  Sidney   70,  79 

Laut,  A.  C : 176 

Lavell,  C.  E 176 

Lee,  Edmund    144 

LeMair,  H.  W 42 

Ivenpp,  Francis  E 93 

Lever,  Charles   70 

Lillo,  John  204 

Lisle,  Clifton    85 

Locke,  William  J 126 

Lockhart,  John  G 117 

Lomas,  John   176 

Lomax,  J.  A 169 

London,  Jack  70 

Longfellow,  Henry  Wadsworth 75 

Lope  de  Vega 200 

Lorenzini,    Carlo    49 

Lorimer,  George  H 100 

Loti,  Pierre   196 

Lounsberry,  Alice    82 

Low,  A.  M 117 

Lowell,  A.  L 176 

Lowell,  James  Russell 132,   133 

Lowry,  E.  B 109 

Lucas,  E.  V 49,  53,  135 

Lummis,  Charles  F 107 

Lyly,  John   202 

McArthur,  Peter 133 

McCullough,  Ernest   182 

McGraw,  J.  J 82 


INDKX  237 

Machievelli,  Nicollo    176 

Mackay,  Constance  D 76 

Mackenzie,  Henry 196 

Mackie,  Robert  L 177 

Macleod,  Alice 112 

Mac  Mamis,  Sennias   40 

Macmillan,  D.  B 135 

MeNaught,  M.  S 182 

Mahan,  A.  T 177 

Manatt,  J.  1 177 

Manly,  John  M 206,  207 

Manson,  George  L 110 

Marden,  Orison  S. Ill 

Margueritte,  Paul    196 

Marks,  Jeannette  82 

Marlowe,  Christopher  202 

Marryat,  Frederick   101 

Marshall,  John   117 

Martin,  George  M 70 

Martin,  T.  C 117 

Martineau,  Harriet   177 

Masefield,  John   101,  156,  189 

Mason,  Daniel  G 161 

Masson,   David    177 

Mathiews,   F.   K 85 

Matthews,  Brander   207 

Maupassant,  Guy  de 150 

Maxwell,  William    182 

Meadowcroft,  W.  H 61 

Meredith,  George .150 

Merrick,  Leonard    151 

Merton,  H.  W 182 

Miller,  L.  E 135 

Minis,  Edward    144 

Miner,  G.  W 182,  183 

Mitchell,  S.  Weir 101 

Moffett,  Cleveland   93 

Moliere  (Jean  Baptiste  Poguelin) 201 

Montgomery,  Lucy  M 101 

Moody,  William  Vaughan 129 

Moon,  Grace  70 

Moore,   George    196 

Moore,  J.  H 183 

Merely,   L.  H 183 

Morfill,  W.  R 178 

Morgan,  A.  P 112 

Morganthau,   Henry    10<  > 

Morley.  John  118,  178 


238  INDEX 

Morrison,  Arthur  126 

Morse,  Richard   170 

Moses,  Belle   61 

Moses,  M.  J 207 

Motley,  John  L 178 

Moulton,  Richard  Green 137,  167 

Muir,  John   107 

Munroe,  W.  B 170 

Murray,  Gilbert   137 

Myers,  W.  S 170 

Nielsen,  William  A 207 

Newman,  John  Henry   145,  183 

Neystrom,  P.  H 183 

Nicholson,  Meredith    170 

Nicolay,  Helen   61 

Nicolay,  J.  G. 93 

Nordhoff,  Charles  170 

Norris,  Frank  102 

Norris,  Kathleen    102 

Norton,  Charles  Eliot  49 

Noyes,  A 190 

Olcott,  Frances  J 50,  53,  76 

Oliphant,  Margaret    118 

Ollivant,  Alfred    102 

Omond,  G.  W.  T 135 

Otis,  James  70 

Otway,  Thomas 204 

Page,  Curtis  H 206 

Page,  R.  W 170 

Page,  Thomas  Nelson  151 

Paine,  R 190 

Palmer,  Frederick  190 

Palmer,   George  Herbert    109,   118 

Parker,  Cornelia  S 118 

Parker,  Gilbert    151 

Parker,  L.  N 157 

Parkman,  Francis  79,  170 

Parkman,  Mary  R 93 

Partridge,  E.  N 71 

Pater,  Walter   160 

Pattison,  Mark   145 

Payne,  C.  E 176 

Peabody,  Francis  G 183 

Peele,  George   202 

Pepys,  Samuel    145 


INDEX  £30 

Perkins,  Lucy  Fitch  53,  71 

Perrault,  Charles  43 

Perry,  W.  C 79 

Pinero,  Arthur  Wing   157 

Pitman,  N.  H. 50 

Plato    178 

Plautus    200 

Plutarch    93 

Poe,  Edgar  Allan 126 

Poincare,  Raymond   178 

Poole,  G.  W 183 

Porter,  Jane  71 

Potter,  Beatrix    43 

Powell,  S.  H 182 

Pratt,  Sefeno  S 184 

Price,  O.  W 82 

Pumphrey,   Margaret  B 54 

Pyle,   Howard    71 

Pyle,  Katherine 43 

Quiller-Couch,  Arthur  T.    . . .  .* 206 

Quinn,  A 207 

Racine,  Jean   201 

Reade,  Charles    126,   127 

Reed,  Chester  A 82 

Reed,  Earl  H 107 

Remington,  Frederic  79 

Rhead,  Louis 50 

Rhodes,  James  Ford 171 

Rice,  Alice  Hegan 71 

Rice,  Grantland    85 

Richards,  Laura  E 50,  72,  93 

Riesenberg,  Felix   107 

Riis,  Jacob  A 171 

Rinehart,  Mary  Roberts   190 

Ritchie,  Anne  1 160 

Rittenhouse,  Jessie  B 206 

Robert,  Henry  M Ill 

Robertson,  Eric 135 

Rogers,  Julia  E 82 

Rolland,  Romain    197 

Rolt-Wheeler,   Francis    72 

Roosevelt,  Theodore 119,  135,  171,  191 

Rose,  J.  H 191 

Ross,  Charles  G 184 

Ross,  E.  A 136 

Rostand,  Edmond 157 


240  INDEX 

Rothschild,  Alonzo   119 

Rousseau,  Jean  Jacques 145,  197 

Rowe,  Nicholas   204 

Ruhl,  Arthur  178 

Ruskin,  John 50,  145,   160 

Rutledge,    Edmund    83 

Ryan,   E.    L 76 

Sand,    George     197 

Schwab,  Charles  M Ill 

Scott,   Dixon    160 

Scott,    James   Brown    191 

Scott,   Sir  Walter    72,   102,  103 

Scott,   Walter  D 184 

Scudder,  Horace  E 43,  44,  62 

Seaman,  A.   H 72 

Seeger,  Alan 191 

Self  ridge,    H.    G 184 

Seneca    199 

Serviss,  C.  P 183 

Seton,   Ernest  Thompson    83,    85 

Sewell,  Anna  50 

Seymour,    Charles    191 

Shakspere,  William  105,  106,  129,  130 

Shaw,  Albert  191 

Shaw,  Anna  H 119 

Shaw,   George  Bernard    157 

Sheldon,  Edward .157 

Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe   205 

Sheridan,  Richard  Brinsley  130,  205 

Shorthousc,   Joseph   H 151 

Shuman,   E.    L 184 

Sidney,    Margaret    72 

Simmonds,   R 112 

Simonds,  Prank    191 

Singmaster,   Elsie    73 

Skinner,  Ada  M 44,  76 

Slocum,   J 107 

Slosson,    E.    E 109 

Smith,   E.   Boyd    54 

Smith,   Elia   S 73 

Smith,  F.  Hopkinson  108,  127 

Smith,    Gertrude    44 

Smith,  N.  A , 51,   77 

Smith,  William  C 184 

Spearman,  Frank  H 103 

Sophocles    109 

Spyri,    Johanna    51 


INDEX  241 

Stanley,   Arthur   P 146 

Stanley,  Henry  M 108 

Steiner,   Edward    171 

Sterne,  Laurence   197 

Stevens,   A.  F , 73 

Stevens,  David  H 79,  207 

Stevens,   George  W 136 

Stevens,  L.  0 73 

Stevens,  Ruth  D 71) 

Stevenson,  Burton  E 76 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis 44,  73,  103,  127,  133,  179 

Stobart,  J.  C 179 

Stobart,   Mabel  Annie    192 

Stockton,   Frank  R 80 

Stoddard,   W.   0 94 

Stone,    W S3 

Stowe,  Harriet  Beecher  103 

Street,  Julien    108 

Stuck,  Hudson   108 

Sullivan,  J.   J 185 

Synge,    John    ..130,    157 

Taft,   William   H 171 

Tallentyre,  S.  G 133 

Tappan,  Eva  March    80 

Tarkington,    Booth 103,    104 

Tasso,  Torquato    200 

Taylor,    Bayard    30 

Terence   200 

Terhune,  Albert  P 73 

Thackeray,  William  Makepeace  127,  128,  151,  152 

Thayer,  William  Roscoe  146 

Thomas,  Augustus  M 130 

Thorp,  F.  H 185 

Thurston,    I.    T 74 

Tolstoi,    Leo    198 

Tomlinson,   E.   T 83 

Tomlinson,  H.  M 136 

Trine,  Ralph  Waldo   .  .137 

Trollope,  Anthony   152 

Tucker,    E.    L 76 

Turgenev,   Ivan    128,    198 

Turley,   Charles    108 

Turner,  Edward  R 179 

Twain,    Mark    74 

Vance,    F.    T 85 

Vanderlip,   Frank  A 192 


242  INDEX 

Van  Loon,  Hendrik  W 80 

Verne,    Jules 74 

Verrill,  A.  H 74,  112 

Voltaire  (Francois  Marie  Arouet)    201 

Wade,  Mary  H 94 

Walker,  A.  J 76 

Wallace,    Lewis 104 

Waller,  Mary  E -. .   74 

Walpole,  Hugh   152 

Walter,  L.  E 44 

Walton,  Isaac t 133 

Ware,   M.   S 179 

Warner,   G.    C 54 

Weale,  B.  L .179 

Weaver,    E.    W 185 

Webster,   Henry   Kitchell    104 

Webster,    Jean    74 

Webster,  John 203 

Weick,  C 112 

Wells,  H.  G 152 

Westcott,   Edward   Noyes    104 

Weyman,  Stanley  John 104 

White,  Eliza  0 51 

White,  Horace 185 

White,  John  S 62 

White,  Stewart  Edward 105 

White,  William  Allen   192 

Whitlock,  Brand   171.  192 

Wiggin,  Kate  Douglas 51,  75,  77 

Wilde,    Oscar 158 

Wilkins,  Mary  E 51,  105,  153 

Williams,    Sherman    172 

Willoughby,  W.  F 172 

Wilson,  C.  D 109 

Wilson,   Woodrow    172 

Wise,  Daniel   62 

Wister,   Owen    94,    128 

Wright,   Henry  Parks    109 

Wright,  Henrietta  C 62 

Wright,  Isa  L 45 

Wynne,    Annette    51 

Wyss,   J.    D 52 

Yeats,   William    Butler 158 

Zola,    Emile    198 


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